Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Grint was killed when Avro Lancaster III PB294 EM-G of 207 Squadron crashed off the Lincolnshire coast. near Anderby Creek. The Lancaster crashed when jettisoning its bomb load after returning from a mission to bomb an oil depot at Donges. All seven crew were killed.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1
The local R.N.L.I. station made the following report, recorded in the Supplement to Annual Reports of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution 1939-46:
“July 25th - Skegness, Lincolnshire.
At 04:40 in the morning, a message was received from the coastguard that it was thought a Lancaster aeroplane was down in the sea about six miles from Anderby Creek. A light southerly wind was blowing and the sea was calm. The aeroplane could be seen blazing when the motor lifeboat 'Anne Allen' was launched at 05:28. About eight miles from Skegness Pier, she found wreckage and searched a wide area, but found no men. One body was picked up by an RAF launch. The lifeboat picked up parachutes, caps, boots and other things, and handed them to the air authorities when she arrived back at 10:00.
Rewards £10 19s 9d.
Joseph Robert Grint is remembered in Ashington on A17.43 and in Lynemouth on L40.01