Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Ditchburn was killed in Short Stirling I R9253 OJ-C of 149 Squadron, which was lost on a 'Gardening' (mine-laying) mission. The Stirling was to lay mines in the area codenamed 'Jasmine', in the Baltic off Warnemunde, but crashed on mud flats at Westermarsch, with the loss of all 8 crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1942; W.R. Chorley; 1994; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 89 X page 273.
Tony Hibberd has offered the following:
Stirling R9253 OJ-C had departed Lakenheath at 1635 for Ops Gardening. It was engaged by 1-3/lei Re Flak Abt 770, hit and shot down. The aircraft crashed nr Warnemunde at 1950.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years Part 3 Dr Theo Boiten
Philip Wedgwood Ditchburn is remembered in Ashington on A17.43