F/O Renton was serving with 550 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster I NG331 BQ-M which took off from North Killingholme on a mission to Hannover. The aircraft is thought to have been shot down by flak in the outskirts of Hanover. Six men died, the seventh was taken prisoner.
On this one night 36 aircraft were lost, with an average crew of 7 per aircraft.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1945; W.R. Chorley; 1998; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 92 X
Tony Hibberd has added the following:
Lancaster NG331 BQ-M had departed North Killingholme at 1915 for Ops Hannover
Francis Swan Renton is remembered at Tillmouth on T18.02
