Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Pilot officer Tebble was the Navigator aboard Avro Lancaster I W4901 PM-W of 103 Squadron, which was lost on a mission to Cologne. The Lancaster was shot down by anti aircraft fire from Luftwaffe Flak batteries 2./665 and 3./665, and crashed near Veghel in Noord-Brabant at 00.59 hours with the loss of all seven crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943; W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3
Tony Hibberd has added the following:
Lancaster W4901 PM-W had departed Elsham Wolds at 2230 for Ops Cologne
It was intercepted at 7000M above Vechel by a Night-Fighter captained by Lt Werner Baake (I/NJG1) and shot down at 0059 for his 3rd Abschuss
It was also claimed as engaged by 2 & 3/gem Flak Abt 665 hit and shot down – but the claim was eventually awarded to Lt Baake
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part 1 Dr Theo Boiten
George Graham Tebble is remembered in Bedlington on B15.13, in Bedlington Station on B163.04 and in Durham on D47.059
