Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt Shield was the Navigator/Bomb Aimer aboard Short Stirling III BF463 WP-Q of 90 Squadron, which was shot down on a mission to Rostock. The Stirling was shot down by flak, and crashed at 00.19 hours into the Storebaelt channel, near the island of Sprogo, within the loss of all seven crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 120
Also killed in the same incident was Sgt. N. Shield
Thomas Edwain Hall is remembered in Houghton le Spring on H132.03
