Beaufighter RD714 crash

Paul,

Thanks very much for this. Cyril Harbour is indeed the chap whose citation I had found. Everything seems to fit together!

According to Price of Peace Rescuer: LAC Cyril Fred Harbour was believed to have been awarded BEM for gallantry in rescuing navigator and attempting to save piolt

Thanks very much, Geoff. That’s really helps tie together and interesting story I’m compiling. It looks very much like two separate chaps who’ve contributed material to the Museum of Flight may have a connection and I think I’ve pinned down the details of the crash one of them was involved in. He was the navigator in the above aircraft but never knew his rescuer but understood he had got a ‘gong’. By chance, I think I’ve found the rescuer’s citation on the London Gazette website, which is the missing piece of the puzzle.

Ian,

Only the pilot, who died, is named and he was Flight Sergeant James Arthur Jeanes, aged 21.

Geoff.