[Peter Clare]

March 16, 1942	Consolidated 32 Liberator II (LB-30)	AL577	N	RAF	OADU / 108 Sqn Crew	Louth	Slieve na Glough, Jenkinstown	15	4	W/Cmdr Richard John Wells DFC 39918 + P/O John Peile Tolson 67640 + Sgt Paul Herrick Morey 917067 + Sgt Henry James Gibbons 948393 + Sgt Charles Joseph Ingram 916998 + F/Lt Francis Charles Barrett DFC 77959 + F/O James Robert Anderson DFC 79508 Sgt Cyril Rowland Amos 1182180 DIS F/Sgt Lindsay Ross Williams 402429 + RAAF P/O Wilfred Bertrand Stephens 113267 + Sgt Thomas Edward Pattison 644625 Sgt Sydney Frederick Hayden 910905 Sgt Andrew McMillan Smith Brownlie 546659 + Sgt Walter Paul Brooks 931402 + F/Sgt George Buchanan 1060536 + F/Sgt Carlton Stokes Goodenough R/62738 + RCAF F/Sgt Leslie George Jordan 905148 + P/O George Frederick King J/15525 RCAF + F/Sgt Herbert William Thornley Sloman 402677 + RAAF
	Aircraft was on a ferry flight from North Africa when it crashed on hill side. No newspaper announcment has been found. [J Andersons son Jim emailed me March 2006. A quick review of MA File G2/X/986; Articles by Cummins, Irish Air Ltr date Unkn; Flypast Date Unknown: Irish NA File A.26; M. O'reilly Article RAF B-24 Liberator in Cooley Mountains, April 2002, Irelands Eye; L R Williams files on Australian NAA; Amos names found on LG; All dead names checked on CWGC.org and AWM Nominal Roll; IMA #B38, MacCarron p.56 s/n wrong; Robertson p.182; Quinn p.177-188; Joe Baugher site mentions a/c; ABS AA-AZ agrees with loss, give OADU as unit, The Sqn. Was trying to equip with Liberators at this time. Interview with Joe Whoriskey of the Irish Army on G Byrne Show, RTE, 2003. Most reports call Pattison, Paterson but he is Pattison in the Australian reports; Hayden service file available on AusNA; Dundalk Democrat Article March 2006.] Aircraft Landings Ireland 1939 - 1946