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| Keywords: Flight Sergeant Mathers RAAF 1943 AWM SUK10985.jpg Portrait of 413221 Flight Sergeant Flt Sgt Francis Edwin Mathers RAAF pilot of 77 Squadron RAF from Pagewood NSW in front of a Halifax aicraft Limping home over the North Sea after being crippled by flak while bombing Mulheim on 22 June 1943 a Halifax aircraft piloted by Mathers destroyed a Messerschmitt Me110 shot down by the rear gunner Sgt William F Speedie The aircraft suffered further damage when it made a wheels-up landing at Martlesham Heath For his devotion to duty on this operation Flt Sgt Mathers was immediately awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal CGM the only one to a member of 77 Squadron and soon after commissioned as a Pilot Officer PO The rear gunner Sgt Speedie and the Wireless Operator Sgt Edward G O French were both awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal PO Mathers and his crew were shot down and all killed on a raid on Mannheim on the 6th September 1943 they are buried at Durnbach Germany Mathers was aged 21 at the time of his death SUK10985 circa June 1943 not stated Copyright expired - public domain PD-Australia World War II people of the Royal Australian Air Force Mathers Handley Page Halifax B Mark II No 77 Squadron RAF Recipients of the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal Mathers Handley Page Halifax aircrew | ||||
