Loss Register
Day or Night of operation | Operation | Target | Nickname Aircraft | |||||
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11/12 Jun 43 | Bombing | Düsseldorf | ||||||
Factory | Aircraft | Mk | Serial/Wnr. | Code | Unit | Air Force | TO/t | Airfield |
AVRO | Lancaster | I | ED357 | PH-S | 12 Sqdn | RAF | 2240 | Wickenby |
Time | Cause of the Crash | Crash Location | Damage | Province |
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0202 | Shot down by Oblt. H. Bergmann of 8./NJG 4, detached Stab/NJG1 | Crashed into IJsselmeer 20 km n of Harderwijk (now Elandweg at Oost Flevoland) | Flevoland |
Function | Mil Rank | Ini | Name | Age | Mil reg | Air Force | Fate | Cemetery | Grave | Remarks |
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Pilot | F/Sgt. | D.M. | Thomson | 26 | AUS409256 | RAAF | KIA | Amsterdam NOB | 69 C 20 | |
Flight Engineer | Sgt. | J.L. | Osborne | 20 | 1172557 | RAF | KIA | Amsterdam NOB | 69 C 20 | |
Navigator | Sgt. | K. | Bowes | 23 | 1098656 | RAF | MIA | Runnymede Memorial | 143 | |
Bomb Aimer | Sgt. | W.M. | Ward | 20 | 1553630 | RAF | KIA | Amsterdam NOB | 69 C 20 | |
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner | Sgt. | D.N. | Campbell | 21 | 1345600 | RAF | KIA | Amsterdam NOB | 69 C 19 | |
Mid Upper Gunner | W/O. | W.T. | Pingle | R/146605 | RCAF | POW | - | |||
Rear Gunner | W/O. | C.W.A. | Sparling | R/51866 | RCAF | POW | - |
Wartime Records | Background Info |
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Operations Record Book | Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1943’, page 174; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive January-June 1943’, page 115 |
Version March, 2022