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GRZESZCZAK Bohdan
kpt. pil.
P 1391
10.8.1908 Warsaw 
R.A.F. Polish
58 OTU
28.8.1941, near Maddiston
Northwood War Cemetery, Middlesex
Service Section H, Grave 179

F/Lt Bogdan Grzesczak in Miles Master I, code T8581, whilst practising dummy 
attacks on another Miles Master, T8541 of 303 Squadron got into a spin, dived 
into the ground and the aircraft burst into flames. The aircraft crashed 1,5 km 
south of Maddiston at Craigend Lodge.       
P/O William Moodie Macdonald in Master T8541 crashed as well.
His body was taken to Grangemouth Railway Station for return to his family in 
Loughaghery, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, for a private burial.

[His name is mentioned on the Polish Air Force memorial at Northolt, U.K.]

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