Hi Folks and apologies for being a little cheeky in punting my post back up to the top of the list but I do have a serious question.

Further to the the above posts I had a look at the excellent website lostbombers.co.uk for a reference to RG498 Halifax III. The following was posted:-

“Serial Range RG480 – RG513. 34 Halifax Mk.V1. Part of a batch of 400 HP Halifax Mk.B.111/A.V11/B.V1. RG345-RG390; RG413-RG446 (80) B.111; RG447-RG458; RG472-RG479 (20) A/B.V11; RG480-RG513; RG527-RG568; RG583-RG625; RG639-RG679; RG639-RG736; RG749-RG790; RG813-RG853; RG867-RG879 (300) B.V1. Delivered by English Electric Co (Salmesbury & Preston) between 14Feb45 and 28Feb45. Airborne 1332 15Mar45 from Pocklington to bomb the Mathias Stinnes Benzol plant. Bombed the AP at 1618 from 19,000 feet, but sustained serious Flak damage. diverted to Manston, landing here at 1743. Its arrival was only semi-controlled due to the battle-damage which resulted in a heavy landing and soon afterwards a fire broke out. It is believed the crew escaped relatively unharmed, but the microfilm quality is so poor thet their names are quite unreadable. F/L W.L.M.Dick ”

Is there any way you know of that could verify if WLM Dick is just a misreading of WHA Dick and seeing if the award of the DFC was for bringing this stricken a/c home.

Many thanks again for any help that is forthcoming.