The Squadron’s Operations Record Book shows that MRM Pooles was the Captain of a 35 Squadron aircraft on the following sorties:
- 07/12/1941 Aachen
- 11/12/1941 Cologne
- 18/12/1941 Brest
- 30/12/1941 Brest
- 08/03/1942 Essen
- 13/03/1942 Cologne
- 30/03/1942 Battleship
- 08/04/1942 Hamburg
- 27/04/1942 Battleship (Failed to Return)
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) | Michael Reginald Mark Pooles | 9 |
| (2nd Pilot) | – Bird | 5 |
| Donald Philip MacIntyre | 3 | |
| (Observer) | Gerard John Peter Henry | 9 |
| (WOP / AG) | Allan Wilstrop | 4 |
| Donald Edgar Rarity | 9 | |
| John Ryland Jones | 4 | |
| Joseph Pierre Gaston Blanchet | 1 | |
| (Air Gunner) | Frank William Gosnell Hill | 1 |
| G Lowe | 7 | |
| Maurice Cohen [aka Cowan] | 1 | |
| (Flight Engineer) | Dennis Sidney Hunt | 4 |
| Hubert Allan Booth | 5 |
Believed to be: Henry, MacIntyre, Lowe, Pooles, Rarity, Hunt, Jones
[Courtesy of Chris Tasker]
Posting Dates
| Pooles | Michael Reginald Mark | In From: | 51 Squadron | 24/10/1941 |
| Out to: | War Casualty | 27/04/1942 |
