Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Durrant was killed when North American Mitchell II FR365 of 111 O.T.U. (Operational Training Unit) was lost on a training mission, The Mitchell, based at Nassau, the Bahamas, was taking part in a navigation exercise, but failed to return. All seven crew members were killed.
For Your Tomorrow: A Record of New Zealanders who have Died while serving with the RNZAF and Allied Air Services since 1915. Volume Two: Fates 1943-1998; Martyn, Errol W.; Volplane Press,1999, ISBN 9780473063108, page 98
He is remembered in Billingham on B139.05 and at Tanfield Lea T63.05
