Sgt. Duffy was serving with 49 Squadron. He was a crew member of Hampden I AE236 EA- which took off from Scampton on a mission to Kiel which crashed there.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1941; W.R. Chorley; 1993; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 87 3
Tony Hibberd has offered the following:
Hampden AE236 EA-? had departed Scampton for Ops KielIt was probably engaged by 7 Marine Flak Abt 221, hit and shot down
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years Part 2 Dr Theo Boiten
Patrick James Duffy is remembered in Coundon on C117.01 and C117.08