Christopher Humphrey Cotton Minchin
Pilot Officer · 172470 · United Kingdom
- Died
- 31 March 1944, aged 23
- Fate
- Killed in action
Biography
Not known
Burial / commemoration
- Cemetery
- Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany
Operations on this date. One raid in this archive was flown on the night of 31 March 1944: Operation Nuremberg raid. (Cross-reference by date — not in itself confirmation this airman flew it.)
Timeline
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30 March 1944
Flew Operation Nuremberg raid
Second pilot, ND562 PH-D — Crashed outbound -
31 March 1944
Died
aged 23
Crew & operations
Flew as Second pilot with No. 12 Squadron.
- Operation Nuremberg raid (30 March 1944) — aircraft ND562 PH-D (Avro Lancaster) — Crashed outbound
Crew: Robert Timperley (Bomb aimer) · Kenneth Launcelot Summerscale (Flight engineer) · Jack Ernest McInnes (Mid-upper gunner) · Maurice Rene Nicolas Mouchet (Navigator) · Alastair John Cook (Pilot) · Richard Frederick Bayley (Rear gunner) · Bernard Salt (Wireless operator)
Source: CWGC casualty record: COTTON MINCHIN, CHRISTOPHER HUMPHREY → · Commonwealth War Graves Commission