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A.W. OSMAN.

2.

off Borkum and the Terschelling Island, and at Lorient,
in France. During June, July and part of August he attended
a captain's course at the Lancaster Conversion Unit, Wigsley,
Nottinghamshire, afterwards returning to No. 61 Squadron, then
at Syerston, Nottinghamshire. From this base, as captain of
Lancaster bomber aircraft, he took part in a further 7
operational flights, the targets including Kassel, Nurenberg,
Saarbrucken, Dusseldorf, Breman and Wilhelmshaven, all in
Germany.

W/O Osman was the pilot of a Lnacaster bomber aircraft
which took off on air operation on the night of the 16/17th
September, 1942, for the target of Essen, in Germany. The
aircraft failed to return to its base and all the members of
the crew, including W/O Osman, were classified as missing.
Later information was received from a German source through the
International Red Cross Committee that W/O Osman had lost his
life, and in consequence, he was reclassified to missing,
believed killed. At a later date still information was
received that he was buried at the 9th Military Cemetary,
Dusseldorf. In due course his death was presumed for official
purposes to have occured on teh 17th September, 1942.

5/2/4000 AS2 Mr. W.C.J. Osman (F)
423 hrs. as pilot. Fendalton, CHRISTCHURCH.