I’ve updated the list of losses on the website: http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/142sqn_losses.htm

I don’t think HF795 is the correct serial for the subject of this thread though. The squadron ORB is actually pretty confusing for April to June 1943, but HF795 appears to have been operating in June. Air Britain has it listed as missing 10/4/43 (Decimomannu). The ORB lists 3 operational losses in May and Air Britain attributes 4 aircraft to two of these. One of these could well be QT-C which failed to return from Enfedaville. I suspect the records were written up incorrectly at the time.

Any help sorting this out will be great! The web page is still being updated and I’m slowly adding the crew names for 1943-44 to the list of aircraft losses. If anyone can identify crews that I haven’t listed yet, please post a reply and I’ll add details to the website. The crews up to the end of 1942 are already listed here: http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/men_of_142.htm

Although I have yet to see it, I found out that another Great Nephew of George Sherwwod is in possession of the letter sent to the family from the Air Ministry regarding the loss of QT-C and the death of my Great Uncle. Maybe there are some details in there. I will post an update when I have seen it.

We met up recently at a family funeral and I was saddened to hear my late Great Aunt had never made it to Tunisia to visit the grave and we discussed the possibility of getting in touch with the families of all five of the crew to see if a visit could be organised.