Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
F/Sgt Strong was killed when Avro Lancaster I L7547 EM-M of 207 Squadron was lost on a mission to Milan. The Lancaster suffered an engine fire in the port outer engine on the homeward journey, and crashed at St. Brisson, with the loss of five of the seven crew - the remaining two crew members escaped and evaded capture.
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 42
Also killed in the same incident were F/Sgt T.W. Strong and Sgt. K. White
Sgt. Bone is remembered in Jarrow on J2.07
