Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Flight Sgt. Steven was killed when Handley Page Halifax V EB137 SE-N of 431 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron was lost on a mission to Leipzig, 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, page 417
Tony Hibberd has added the following:
Halifax EB137 SE-N had departed Tholthorpe at 2339 for Ops Leipzig. It was intercepted at 4500M by a Night-Fighter captained by Fw Karl-Georg Pfeiffer (XII/NJG1) and shot down at 0303 for his 9th Abschuss.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part 3 Dr Theo Boiten
Also killed in the same incident was Sgt. J.G. L’Argent
Robert Redpath Steven is remembered at Bedlington on B15.02, B15.08 and B15.13
