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The following http://www.felstedremembers.uwclub.net/GEbert.htm lists the crew on the night that ED586 EM-F was lost as:

Pilot – Flight Lieutenant George Henry Ebert DFC RAF
2nd Pilot aboard for experience – Wing Commander Ashley Duke Jackson MiD RAF
Flight Engineer – Sergeant Bernard Owen Greenhill RAF
Navigator – Flight Sergeant Fred Thomas Murray Sidebotham RAFVR
Air Bomber -Flying Officer Peter Noel Hodgson RAFVR
Wireless Operator – Flight Sergeant Jack Thomas Toplis RAFVR
Mid Upper Gunner – Sergeant Aubrey Harris Miller RAFVR
Rear Gunner – Flight Sergeant Alfred John Simmons RAFVR

The aircraft took off from RAF Spilsby in Lincolnshire just minutes before midnight on 6th January 1944. The aircraft was shot down in the target area of Stettin, which was then part of Germany.