Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Wardle was killed when Consolidated Liberator VI KG887 of 178 Squadron was lost on a mission to attack Szombathely Airfield. The Liberator crashed near the village of Pornóapáti, Hungary, with the loss of five of the seven crew members - the two survivors were made P.o.W.
Also killed on the same crash were:Sgt. G.G. Wardle and Sgt. R.B. Walker
William Dawson Fairney is remembered in Seaton Sluice on S9.01