Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Heslop was killed when Avro Lancaster III ED449 VN-T of 50 Squadron was lost on a mission to Essen. The Lancaster was shot down by a Luftwaffe night fighter, and crashed on the banks of the River Maas, near Venray, the Netherlands, with 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 74
Also killed in the same crash was Ft. Sgt. Robert Wilson
Tony Hibbered has added the following:
Lancaster ED449 VN-T had departed Skellingthorpe at 1940 for Ops Essen. It was intercepted at 5300M, 3-5km, E of Limburg by a Night-Fighter captained by Nacht Jagd “Experten” Oblt Manfred Meurer (III/NJG1) and shot down at 2125 for his 20th Abschuss
Nacht Jagd Combat Archive 1943 Part 1; Dr Theo Boiten
Ronald Heslop is remembered in Blackhall Colliery on B144.01
