Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Orrick was killed when Handley Page Halifax III MZ855 C8-F of 640 Squadron was lost on a mission to Russelheim. Of the seven crew, two were killed, one made a P.o.W., and four evaded.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1, page 384
On August 7th, 1944, the same crew had a lucky escape when the Halifax III LK757 C8-M had made a crash landing at R.A.F. Boscombe Down, on returning from a mission to bomb strong-points in Normandy. The Halifax struck a telegraph pole and crashed near the Salisbury to Andover railway line.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1, page 372
Flypast magazine of November 2014 carried an article entitled 'Three Thirteens', by Bill Norman, describing the loss of MZ855. The Halifax was shot down by a Luftwaffe Ju-88 flown by Hermann Mockel of 2./NJG4.
Basil Orrick is remembered in Billingham on B139.05 and at Port Clarence on P36.01
