Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Shields was killed when Handley Page Halifax II DT488 TL-Q of 35 Squadron was lost on a mission to Dortmund. The Halifax came down near Wanne-Eickel, and of the seven crew, only one survived to become a P.o.W.
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 154
He is remembered in Billingham on B139.05 and B139.09 and at Houghton-le-Spring on H132.03
