With little change to the weather July commenced with occasional fine days in between showers, localised thunder and wider spread thunderstorms. Reconnaissance missions, training exercises and incendiary dropping into the North Sea were the order of the day but were interrupted by Ruhr tours by two Lancasters on 9th July.
One of the crews busy during the month dropping redundant incendiary bombs into the North Sea was that of pilot Jim Dymock and Flight Engineer/Pilot Charles Coombes (one of the new breed of fully pilot trained flight engineers). Crew photo to be inserted
Later in the month foggy and cloudy weather set in and most training flights were cancelled although on 12th July twelve cross country flights relieved the boredom and two more Ruhr tours were flown with two more following on 16th.
On 18th July the Appendix to the Operations Record Book abruptly reports the names of the aircrew still serving with 630 Squadron when it disbanded, the list is headed:
Commanding Officer : Wing Commander FWL Wild
Squadron Adjutant : Flight Lieutenant AHL Britton
“A” Flight Commander : Squadron Leader T Forshaw[i]
“B” Flight Commander : Squadron Leader IG Fadden DFC BEM[ii]
Training Officer : Flight Lieutenant GA Mitchell[iii]
Gunnery Leader : Flight Lieutenant TL Cass DFM[iv]
Navigation Leader : Flight Lieutenant HTA Evans DFC[v]
Bombing Leader : Flight Lieutenant A Barnard[vi]
Engineer Leader : Flying Officer SA Mitton[vii]
Signals Leader : Flying
Officer DW Hobrough[viii]
[i] Terence Henry Trimble Forshaw (39165), RAF. (born 1916 Kent)
[ii] Ian George Fadden DFC BEM (758062, 113490), RAFVR. BEM awarded for bravery crash landing Wellington Z8733 of 148 Squadron in the desert 05/10/41 and then rescuing an injured crew member despite the flames, LG.08/06/42. DFC LG.11/08/44, 61 Sqdn. (born 27/01/1916, resided Harrow, RAF Regular serviceman, 758062 Sgt No. 2 Squadron in 1939, died 17/09/1999 buried Whatlington/Sussex)
[iii] Gerald Arthur Mitchell (1061588, 174328), RAFVR. G.D. Branch (Aircrew).
[iv] Thomas Leonard Cass DFM (745238, 137343),RAFVR. DFM LG.29/12/42, 61 Sqdn. (born 18/11/1918 Lincoln – died 18/05/2001 Lincoln) Pre-war RAFVR No. 745238.
[v] Henry Thomas Alfred Evans DFC (1800700,138089), RAFVR. DFC LG.11/08/44, 550 Sqdn.
[vi] Alfred Barnard (936803, 146025), RAFVR.
[vii] Stanley Allenby Mitton (54000), RAF. Previously 537513, Sergeant.
[viii] David Walter Hobrough (1336831, 184544), RAFVR. Previously 617 Sqdn. (born 1923 Hammersmith – died 2011 Winchester/Hants)
No. 630 Squadron 