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B.G. HIBELL.
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of the crew of a Whitley bomber Flight Sergeant Hibell took part in nine operational flights his targets including Hamburg, Emden (2) and Mannheim in Germany; St. Nazaire (2), and Brest in France; and Rotterdam in Holland.

Flight Sergeant Hibell was a member of the crew of a Whitley bomber which took off on air operations over Germany on the 27th February 1942 and failed to return to its base and Flight Sergeant Hibell was classified as missing. Later, information was received from a German source through the International Red Cross Committee that he had lost his life, and he was, in consequence reclassified as missing believed killed. In due course his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 27th February 1942. Subsequently, information was received that he had been buried in Grave Number 5626, Essens Cemetery, East Friesland, Germany, but after the cessation of hositilities was reinterred in the Oldenburg British Military Cemetery.

Find a Grave link with photos of Flight Sergeant Hibell: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18427220/bert_gordon-hibell/photo

5/15/17 AS2
266 hours as aircrew

Mrs. M.M. Hibell, (M)., (right aligned)
166 Fitzherbert Avenue, (right aligned)
PALMERSTON NORTH (right aligned & underlined)