The Squadron’s Operations Record Book shows that EK Creswell was the Captain of a 35 Squadron aircraft on the following sorties:
- 19/08/1941 Kiel
- 28/08/1941 Duisburg
- 31/08/1941 Cologne
- 07/09/1941 Berlin
- 10/09/1941 Turin (Forced Landed)
- 15/09/1941 Hamburg
- 29/09/1941 Stettin
- 10/10/1941 Essen (Incident)
- 14/10/1941 Nuremberg
- 07/11/1941 Berlin
- 25/11/1941 Brest
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) | Edmund Keith Creswell | 11 |
(2nd Pilot) | Donald Philip MacIntyre | 2 |
Douglas Rowley-Blake | 1 | |
Duncan Gordon McKay | 4 | |
John Stanley Gearing | 1 | |
Richard Roye Drummond | 2 | |
Ross Hardie | 1 | |
(Observer) | – Hewlett | 3 |
Alfred Abels | 2 | |
Gerard John Peter Henry | 4 | |
Maurice Osborne Stephens | 2 | |
(WOP / AG) | E Kinsella | 1 |
Maurice Victor Wakeling | 2 | |
Stanley Frank Hazleton | 2 | |
Stanley Turner | 11 | |
Walter Montague Gordon Wing | 6 | |
(Air Gunner) | G Lowe | 10 |
Royston Denis William Carrington | 1 | |
(Flight Engineer) | J Colgan | 4 |
Dennis Sidney Hunt | 5 | |
Frank Stewart | 2 |
He was posted out of the squadron in January 1942, rejoining in February 1943.
The Squadron’s Operations Record Book shows that he was the Captain of a 35 Squadron aircraft on the following sorties:
- 21/02/1943 Bremen
- 25/02/1943 Nuremberg
- 28/02/1943 St.Nazaire
- 01/03/1943 Berlin
- 05/03/1943 Essen
- 09/03/1943 Munich
- 27/03/1943 Berlin
- 29/03/1943 Berlin
- 10/04/1943 Frankfurt
- 14/04/1943 Stuttgart
- 18/04/1943 Spezia
- 20/04/1943 Stettin
- 12/05/1943 Duisburg
- 13/05/1943 Pilsen
- 29/05/1943 Wuppertal
- 11/06/1943 Munster
- 19/06/1943 Le Creusot & Henri Paul
- 21/06/1943 Krefeld
- 13/07/1943 Aachen
- 15/07/1943 Montbéliard
- 24/07/1943 Hamburg
- 27/07/1943 Hamburg
- 09/08/1943 Mannheim
- 23/08/1943 Berlin
- 19/02/1944 Leipzig
- 18/03/1944 Frankfurt (Aborted)
- 22/03/1944 Frankfurt
- 24/03/1944 Berlin
- 30/03/1944 Nuremberg
- 22/04/1944 Laon
- 24/04/1944 Karlsruhe
- 26/04/1944 Villeneuve St.Georges
- 27/04/1944 Friedrichshafen
- 30/04/1944 Acheres
- 07/05/1944 Nantes
- 10/05/1944 Lens
- 19/05/1944 Boulogne
- 31/05/1944 Trappes
- 09/06/1944 Rennes
- 12/06/1944 Arras
- 15/06/1944 Fouillard
- 04/07/1944 Villeneuve St.Georges
- 07/07/1944 Caen
- 12/07/1944 Tours
- 18/07/1944 H2-Manneville (Daylight)
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) | Edmund Keith Creswell | 45 |
(2nd Dickie) | Brian Guinness Glover | 1 |
(Navigator) | Alan James Dowling | 18 |
Charles Ernest Davies | 1 | |
Herbert Alan Millar | 20 | |
Boris Oleh Bodnar | 6 | |
(Air Bomber) | Donald Kenneth Allport | 44 |
Douglas Harris | 1 | |
(Set Operator) | Alexander Watson Lister | 1 |
Albert Clement Michael Taylor | 14 | |
Bernard Chapman Brooker | 1 | |
Charles Henry Pettit | 1 | |
Hector John Plank | 1 | |
(Wireless Operator) | Benjamin Thomas Royall | 1 |
Charles Miller | 20 | |
John Elliott Fenwick | 1 | |
Marcus Rees | 21 | |
Samuel Angus Moores | 1 | |
Harold John Rogers | 1 | |
(Air Gunner) | William James Simpson | 20 |
Albert Ephraim Bird | 11 | |
Geoffrey Arnold Perry | 1 | |
George Waller Dickenson | 17 | |
JM Prior | 1 | |
John Dixon Atkinson | 1 | |
John Meredith Fryer | 8 | |
Leslie Ledger | 6 | |
Randolph Rhodes | 19 | |
Roy Ronald Long | 1 | |
Harold John Rogers | 4 | |
(Flight Engineer) | Alan John White | 19 |
Alfred Norman Leslie Moss | 1 | |
George Henry Cross | 10 | |
James Cunningham McKnight | 14 |
Posting Dates
Creswell | Edmund Keith | In From: | 51 Squadron | 28/07/1941 |
Out to: | 28 Conv. Flt. | 06/01/1942 | ||
In From: | 102 Squadron | 15/02/1943 | ||
Out to: | HQ Transport Command | 09/08/1944 |