My Grandfather's Office

Unfortunately his Tail Turret was on a Stirling III.

Sgt Seward was attached to 214 Squadron. On the night of 24-25 June 1943 they took off on a raid along with 640 other aircraft of Bomber Command. They were flying a Stirling Mk III EE883 bomber - code letters BU-t. The target was Wuppurtal in the Ruhr Valley. They were a crew of seven under command of pilot Sgt C.K. Miller. The other crew members were: Sgt J A Hitchens, Sgt P D Straton, Sgt R G Akers, Sgt R A H Smith, Sgt T Jones and Sgt S Seward

They took off from their base at Chedburgh, Sufffolk at 23:30 and were reported to have been shot down by a combination of flak and night fighters, crashing into the sea at 03:09 off the Dutch coastal town of Noordwijk aan Zee. There were no survivors. Five of the crew have no known graves but Sgt Jones (Pilot) rests in a cemetery in Noordwijk while Sgt Seward (Tail Gunner), lies in Bergen.