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F/O Nigel Leslie St George Pleasance
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 138 Sqdn.
(d.19th July 1944)
F/O Pleasance served in 138 Squadron at Tempsford. He was killed on July 1944 at St Pair Sur Mer in France in Operation Shipwright 9 in a Halifax LL837-NF-P. The full crew were:
F/Lt H.D. Binns, Airbomber
F/O N.L.StG. Pleasance, Pilot
Sgt J. Allison, Airgunner
Sgt W.L. Dalglish, Airgunner
Sgt T.F. Fergus, Navigator
Sgt E.R. Hearn, Flt. Engineer
Sgt R.L. Lee, Wop/Airgunner
Sgt Allison and Sgt Lee are buried in Bayeux War Cemetery. Sgt Dalglish is buried at Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery and the rest of the crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.