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Old 21st Feb 2017, 20:59
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Ormeside28
 
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Shackman. I was on 205 at the time of Stan Bouttell's crash near the island of Sin Cowe. At the time I was co-pilot to John Elias and after some days and intensive search by many aircraft we found the grave on the island with B205 marked out and a wooden cross( now in St Eval Church). A British Naval party also on the search, landed and recovered the body of the engineer , Flight Sergeant Dancy. He was the only one recovered and taken back to Singapore. There was also an arrow in coral pointing north so we thought that there were survivors so we asked to investigate north. We checked the Spratleys and Hainan and landed at Hong Kong. No trace of survivors but many months later a Formosan fisherman, who had been fishing near Sin Cowe, saw the Shackleton crash and recovered the only body which was taken to the island and buried. The fisherman was later rewarded with gold by a grateful government.
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