Photo: James Pasby

Flying Officer Redshaw was serving with 619 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster I NN695 PG-X which took off from Dunholme Lodge on a mission to Duisburg. On the return flight, he was fired at by an intruder while over East Anglia and crashed, killing all but one who is assumed to have parachuted to safety.

This was a night when 34 Lancaster aircraft, each with a crew of 7, crashed, A few were injured, some were taken prisoner and some evaded capture, but the majority 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

Tony Hibberd has added the following:

Lancaster NN695 PG-X had departed Dunholme Lodge at 2258 for Ops Duisburg

It was possibly intercepted at 800M 15-25km WNW of Kings Lynn by a Luftwaffe Intruder captained by Fw Johann Trenke (VI/KG51) and shot down at 0314 for his 6th Abschuss
Nachtjagd War Diaries Vol 2 Dr Theo Boiten

Robert Hall Redshaw is remembered in North Shields on N34.09 and N34.10 and at Monkseaton in M46.02, page 97

The CWGC entry for Flying Officer Redshaw