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Solomon Seward
Royal Air Force
214 Squadron

Son of Edward and Alice (Blake) Seward
Trap Cove, Battle Harbour, Labrador

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KIA 24/06/1943

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 rests in a cemetery in Noordwijk while Sgt Seward, lies in Bergen.

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Cemetery: Bergen General Cemetery, Netherlands
Grave Reference: Plot 2. Row C. Grave 13.
Location: Bergen is on the coast 6 kilometres north-west of Alkmaar and 43 kilometres north-north-west of Amsterdam, lying 3 kilometres west of the main Alkmaar-Den Helder road. The Bergen General Cemetery is on the north-eastern outskirts of Bergen, in the road known as Kerkedijk. The British plots are in the south-eastern part of the cemetery.