Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
F/Sgt. English was the rear gunner of Handley Page Halifax III LL597 DY-X of 102 Squadron, which was lost on a mission to Hanover. The Halifax was attacked by a Luftwaffe night fighter and exploded in mid-air, the wreckage coming down about 3 miles south west of Wardenburg. Of the eight crew members, only three survived.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1945; W.R. Chorley; 1998; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 92 X, page 32
Acknowledgments: Tony Hibberd
Robert English is remembered in Bishop Auckland on B140.12
