Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt Tate, of 83 squadron, was killed when Handley Page Hampden I AD835 AL-G was shot down by a night-fighter. It had been on a bombing mission to Hannover, and was shot down at 03.57 by the Luftwaffe pilot Lt. Lothar Linke, of II./NJG1. The pilot of the Hampden survived to be taken prisoner, but the other three crew, including Sgt Tate, were killed.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1941; W.R. Chorley; 1993; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 87 3
John Nicholas Bailey Tate is remembered in Alnmouth on A10.01 and A10.04
