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Sgt. Albert Llewellyn Dix 1892030 RAFVR Albert Dix was a 19-year-old Lancaster flight engineer whose aircraft was shot down over the North Sea when returning from a mining operation in the Kiel Bay area of the Baltic. His 625 Squadron Lancaster, LL894 (CF-T), was among 15 aircraft from the squadron that contributed to a force of 43 minelaying Lancasters on the night of 15/16 May 1944 in action over various sites from the Baltic to the Bay of Biscay. Three were lost, including LL894 which is believed to have been attacked by a nightfighter off the Danish coast at around 0153 hours, a little under four hours after taking off from RAF Kelstern. There were no survivors and Albert’s body was the only one to be recovered; he is now buried in Fourfelt Cemetery in Esbjerg. Albert and his crew had only been with the squadron for a few weeks. He was one of two teenagers in the crew, and he was the son of William and Alice Dix of Chatham. The others who lost their lives were the pilot P/O Robert Beadle, navigator F/O William Merrall RCAF, bomb-aimer Flt. Sgt. Harry Lawson RCAF, wireless operator Sgt. Edward Wilkinson, 18-year-old mid-upper gunner Sgt. James Potter and rear gunner Flt. Sgt. Frederick McDonough RAAF. His name can be found on panel 029. Sources: Airwar over Denmark/625 Squadron records. 

The body of Sgt Dix (RAF) was washed ashore on the Danish coast, and he is interred in the Fourfeldt Cemetery, Esbjerg, located on the west coast of Denmark. It was recorded in 1949 that the remaining missing crew members had lost their lives at sea.

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