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At the end of this attachment on the 23rd February 1942 he had returned to No. 51 Squadron and completed his tour of operations.

His tour of operations completed, on the 23rd April, 1942 Flying Officer Monro was posted to No. 24 Operational Training Unit, Honeybourne, Worcestershire for duty as an instructor.

Flying Officer Monro was captain of a Whitley bomber which took off on the night of the 25/26th June 1942 to attack the target of Bremen. At 4.11 a.m. a message was received from the aircraft stating that it was going into the sea. No further message was recevied and when the aircraft failed to return to its base all members of the crew including Flying Officer Monro were classified as missing. Later, information was received from the International Red Cross that two other occupants of the aircraft had been washed up on the shore near Terschelling, Holland. Due time having elapsed, Flying Officer Monro's death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 26th June 1942 as the result of air operations. It was subsequently established that Flying Officer Monro was buried in the West Terschelling Cemetery, Holland.

5/2/2495 A.S.2.
622 hours as pilot.

Mr. C. Monro (F) (right aligned)
25 Woodmancote Rd., (right aligned)
KHANDALLAH. (right aligned & underlined)