The Squadron’s Operations Record Book shows that BH Botha was the Captain of a 35 Squadron aircraft on the following sorties:
- 18/08/1944 Bremen
- 25/08/1944 Brest
- 26/08/1944 Kiel
- 09/09/1944 Le Havre
- 10/09/1944 Le Havre(Alvis”1″)
- 11/09/1944 Le Havre-Cadillac 2
- 12/09/1944 Wanne-Eickel
- 20/09/1944 Calais
- 23/09/1944 Neuss
- 25/09/1944 Calais (Aborted)
- 27/09/1944 Bottrop
- 11/10/1944 Fort Frederik Hendrik
- 12/10/1944 Fort Frederik Hendrik
- 14/10/1944 Duisburg
- 28/10/1944 Cologne
- 29/10/1944 Walcheren
- 01/11/1944 Oberhausen
- 02/11/1944 Dusseldorf
- 06/11/1944 Gelsenkirchen
The following shows the composition of his crew on these sorties, along with the number of sorties undertaken by each airman as part of his crew (as recorded in the squadron’s Operations Record Book). Details of all flights (including training flights) will be recorded in their Flying Log Books:
(Pilot) | Bernhorst Hermanus Botha | 19 |
(2nd Dickie) | Allan Edward Johnson | 1 |
(Navigator) | Arthur Thompson | 19 |
(Air Bomber) | Clayton Hugh Jack | 3 |
LHP Coleman | 1 | |
Philip Berwick Thompson | 15 | |
(Set Operator) | Bernard Chapman Brooker | 1 |
John Duncan Crombie | 5 | |
Walter Stanley Mountford | 8 | |
(Wireless Operator) | Norman Turner | 19 |
(Air Gunner) | – White | 4 |
A Bowie | 1 | |
A Lewis | 14 | |
Ernest Kerkin | 12 | |
Raymond Neale | 2 | |
Robert William Garrard | 3 | |
Thomas James Harvey | 1 | |
William Thomas Quirke | 1 | |
(Flight Engineer) | Harold Robert Sinton | 19 |