Paton


Flight Sergeant (Air Gnr.) ALEXANDER ROBERT PATON
Son of John and Mabel Paton, of Drumoyne, Glasgow.
Service unit: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 161 Sqdn.
Service no: 1573936
Commonwealth War Dead - United Kingdom
Date of death 23 March 1945 at the age of 24
Interred: Vlieland General Cemetery, grave 76

On 23 March 1945, a Stirling LK209 MA-T belonging to 161 Squadron Royal Airforce crashed on a dune just outside the forest plantation of Bomenland, 4½ miles southwest of the village of Oost Vlieland. The four-engine bomber had been sent on a weapons drop for the Dutch resistance movement.

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