BOUTE, Frederic
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rank: P/Ostatus: kia
airforce: RAF (no: 162649 )
born: 1920-02-13 Vicente-Lopez Argentina
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As a pilot of Aé Mil (11/VI/1) Boute was arrested and Imprisoned by the Germans on 28 May 1940. He was 'liberated' on 11 June 1940 and escaped from Belgium on 9 October 1940. Boute arrived in Canada on 8 April 1941 and enlisted in the Belgian Armed Forces, attending the Centre d'Instruction Militaire Belge at Camp de la Joliette. From there, he enlisted the RAFVR, BelgianSection on 18 August 1941 (as Sergeant). Boute trained with SFTS (23/11/1941) and at OTU (09/12/1941). He was posted to 350 (BE) Sqn, 3 March 1942, and promoted to W/O on 2/05/1943. Boute was commissioned as a P/O on 10/10/1943 but KIA on 13 November 1943 at Schelle, victim of Flak. [note - one reference still refers to him as a F/Sgt at this time.]
(Information kindly provided by André Bar)
His claims in combat are :
19/08/1942 1/4 Ju-88 Dieppe (Operation Jubilé)
19/08/1942 1 FW-190 Damaged Dieppe (Operation Jubilé)
19/08/1942 1/2 FW-190 Damaged Dieppe (Operation Jubilé)
From the Squadron diary re: ops on 19 August '42: "Dieppe: 1st mission: take off at 07.20 a.m. Above Dieppe 350 Squadron met a dozen Fw-190, resulting in a destroyed Fw-190 for the "Duke", a shared for H. Picard and E. Plas and a damaged one for L. Flohimont. H. Marchal was hit and had to bale out and was made a POW. The second sortie which took off at 11 a.m. was also successful: 3 Fw-190 destroyed (F. Venesoen, A. Boussa and R. Alexandre) and 4 and 1 shared damaged (F. Boute: 1 and 1 shared with G. Seydel and A. Boussa, R. Alexandre and the "Duke", each damaged one).The third mission at 12.20 p.m. saw a Ju-88 destroyed in co-operation by H. Smets, F. Boute, A. Plisnier and J. Van Leerberghe. The last mission of the day saw 12 Spitfires taking off at 15.15 and again the squadron were successful with 2 Fw-190 destroyed (F. Venesoen and A. Plisnier) and 4 Fw-190 and one Do-217 damaged (G. Seydel, L. Flohimont, E. Plas, R. Alexandre and J. Van Leerberghe)."
(Information kindly provided by André Bar)
His claims in combat are :
19/08/1942 1/4 Ju-88 Dieppe (Operation Jubilé)
19/08/1942 1 FW-190 Damaged Dieppe (Operation Jubilé)
19/08/1942 1/2 FW-190 Damaged Dieppe (Operation Jubilé)
From the Squadron diary re: ops on 19 August '42: "Dieppe: 1st mission: take off at 07.20 a.m. Above Dieppe 350 Squadron met a dozen Fw-190, resulting in a destroyed Fw-190 for the "Duke", a shared for H. Picard and E. Plas and a damaged one for L. Flohimont. H. Marchal was hit and had to bale out and was made a POW. The second sortie which took off at 11 a.m. was also successful: 3 Fw-190 destroyed (F. Venesoen, A. Boussa and R. Alexandre) and 4 and 1 shared damaged (F. Boute: 1 and 1 shared with G. Seydel and A. Boussa, R. Alexandre and the "Duke", each damaged one).The third mission at 12.20 p.m. saw a Ju-88 destroyed in co-operation by H. Smets, F. Boute, A. Plisnier and J. Van Leerberghe. The last mission of the day saw 12 Spitfires taking off at 15.15 and again the squadron were successful with 2 Fw-190 destroyed (F. Venesoen and A. Plisnier) and 4 Fw-190 and one Do-217 damaged (G. Seydel, L. Flohimont, E. Plas, R. Alexandre and J. Van Leerberghe)."
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