Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Warrant Officer Claridge, whose birth was registered at Morpeth in December 1922, was serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was killed in Handley Page Halifax II JN954 VR-R of 419 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron, which was shot down by a Luftwaffe night-fighter on a mission to Montzen. The Halifax crashed in the south-eastern suburbs of Maastricht with the loss of all seven crew.
Bomber Command Losses 1944, W. R. Chorley, 1997, Midland Counties Publishing, ISBN 978 0904597912, page 199.
Tony Hibberd had offered the following:
Halifax JN954 VR-R had departed Middleton St. George at 2326 for Ops Montzen
It was intercepted at 3700M above Heer, 4km ESE of Maastricht by a Night-Fighter captained by Nacht Jagd “Experten” Hptm Hans-Heinz Augenstein (XII/NJG1) and shot down at 0133 for his 27th Abschuss
Nachtjagd Combat Archive1944 Part 2 Dr Theo Boiten
William Thomas Claridge is remembered in Ashington on A17.43
