Lancaster (Total: 7,377, Canadian: 510, Group 509)

Avro Lancaster

Avro Lancaster Mk. X RCAF Serial FM 213
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirling, all three aircraft being four-engined heavy bombers adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the same wartime era.

The Lancaster has its origins in the twin-engine Avro Manchester which had been developed during the late 1930s in response to the Air Ministry Specification P.13/36 for a capable medium bomber for "world-wide use". Originally developed as an evolution of the Manchester (which had proved troublesome in service and was retired in 1942), the Lancaster was designed by Roy Chadwick and powered by four Rolls-Royce Merlins and in one version, Bristol Hercules engines. It first saw service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it was the main aircraft for the night-time bombing campaigns that followed. As increasing numbers of the type were produced, it became the principal heavy bomber used by the RAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within the RAF, overshadowing the Halifax and Stirling. Wikipedia

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General Harold A Skaarup Web Page

Lancaster LM100, Mk.I

s/n LM100

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 100

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM101, Mk.I

s/n LM101

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 101

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM102, Mk.I

s/n LM102

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 102

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM103, Mk.I

s/n LM103

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 103

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM104, Mk.I

s/n LM104

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 104

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM105, Mk.I

s/n LM105

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 105

Merlin

Delivered to No. 626 Sqn May 1944. It had an accident (unspecified) on 29 Jul 1944. It finally went missing on an operation to Duisburg 21/22 Feb 1945.
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-February-22 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Thomas Joseph O'Neill 2021-09-29
1945-February-22 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class Robert Stanley Pyatt 2021-08-11

Lancaster LM106, Mk.I

s/n LM106

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 106

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Earl Hagerty 2022-09-27
1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Russell Mackinnon 2021-08-16

Lancaster LM107, Mk.I

s/n LM107

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 107

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Downing 2024-10-28
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ernest Dyer Figg 2021-08-06

Lancaster LM108, Mk.I

s/n LM108

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 108

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM109, Mk.I

s/n LM109

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 109

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM110, Mk.I

s/n LM110

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 110

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM111, Mk.I

s/n LM111

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 111

Merlin

Delivered to No. 90 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Mar de Magne, Normandy 7/8 Aug 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-08 Evader RCAF Flight Sergeant Howard McNeill Kiddie 2021-07-02
1944-August-08 Evader RCAF Flying Officer D Reid 2023-09-26

Lancaster LM112, Mk.I

s/n LM112

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 112

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM113, Mk.I

s/n LM113

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 113

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM114, Mk.I

s/n LM114

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 114

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM115, Mk.I

s/n LM115

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 115

Merlin

Delivered to No. 57 Sqn (DX-M) May 1944. Missing on operation to Wesseling 21/22 Jun 1944. 67 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-22 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Vivian Lloyd Marshall 2023-09-10

Lancaster LM116, Mk.I

s/n LM116

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 116

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM117, Mk.I

s/n LM117

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 117

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-July-19 Evader RCAF Sergeant Donald Andrew Grant 2021-05-19

Lancaster LM118, Mk.I

s/n LM118

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 118

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM119, Mk.I

s/n LM119

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 119

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM120, Mk.I

s/n LM120

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 120

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM121, Mk.I

s/n LM121

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 121

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM122, Mk.I

s/n LM122

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 122

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM123, Mk.I

s/n LM123

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 123

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM124, Mk.I

s/n LM124

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 124

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM125, Mk.I

s/n LM125

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 125

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM126, Mk.I

s/n LM126

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 126

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM127, Mk.I

s/n LM127

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 127

Merlin

Delivered to No. 115 Sqn June 1944. Missing on operation to Kiel 26/27 Aug 1944. 129 Operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Tom Yates 2021-10-02

Lancaster LM128, Mk.I

s/n LM128

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 128

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM129, Mk.I

s/n LM129

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 129

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM130, Mk.I

s/n LM130

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 130

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM131, Mk.I

s/n LM131

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 131

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM132, Mk.I

s/n LM132

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 132

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM133, Mk.I

s/n LM133

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 133

Merlin

With No.76 Sqn. Aircraft crashed in Sweden on mission to Stettin 16/17 Aug 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-17 Interned RCAF Flying Officer R Hughes-Games 2021-03-09
1944-August-17 Interned RCAF Sergeant David Harkness Laing 2021-03-09
1944-August-18 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Frederick Hubert Watts 2023-08-05

Lancaster LM134, Mk.I

s/n LM134

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 134

Merlin

Delivered to No. 55 Sqn (BQ-H) May 1944. Missing on operation to Sterkrade, Germany 16/17 Jun 1944. 38 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harold Beverly Brett 2024-11-18
1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Kay Murray 2021-09-28
1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donald Fullerton Neilson 2021-08-17

Lancaster LM135, Mk.I

s/n LM135

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 135

Merlin

Delivered to No. 166 Sqn May 1944. Missing on mission to Acheres, France 10/11 Jun 1944. 28 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-11 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant William Ralph Meddick 2023-12-17

Lancaster LM136, Mk.I

s/n LM136

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 136

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM137, Mk.I

s/n LM137

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 137

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-September-12 Murdered RCAF Flying Officer George Thomas Bolderston 2024-11-14

Lancaster LM138, Mk.I

s/n LM138

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 138

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM139, Mk.I

s/n LM139

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 139

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-June-11 Evader RCAF Flying Officer D A Forsyth 2021-05-17

Lancaster LM140, Mk.I

s/n LM140

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 140

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM141, Mk.I

s/n LM141

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 141

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM142, Mk.I

s/n LM142

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 142

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM156, Mk.I

s/n LM156

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 156

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM157, Mk.I

s/n LM157

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 157

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM158, Mk.I

s/n LM158

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 158

Merlin

Delivered to No. 90 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Gelsenkirchen 12/13 June 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-13 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Alexander Allan 2024-11-02
1944-June-13 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Albert Clark Elliott 2022-07-29
1944-June-13 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Philip Clinton Hoffos 2021-03-03
1944-June-13 KIA RCAF Sergeant David Miller Willmott 2021-07-08

Lancaster LM159, Mk.I

s/n LM159

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 159

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM160, Mk.I

s/n LM160

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 160

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM161, Mk.I

s/n LM161

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 161

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM162, Mk.I

s/n LM162

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 162

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM163, Mk.I

s/n LM163

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 163

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM164, Mk.I

s/n LM164

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 164

Merlin

Delivered to No. 90 Sqn (WP-V) Jun 1944. Returned from operation to Cleres, France on 28 Jun 1944 with gunner Flight Sergeant WP Smith killed. Missing on operation to Mar de Magne, France, 7/8 Aug 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Walter Perry Smith 2021-07-25

Lancaster LM165, Mk.I

s/n LM165

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 165

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM166, Mk.I

s/n LM166

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 166

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM167, Mk.I

s/n LM167

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 167

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM168, Mk.I

s/n LM168

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 168

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM169, Mk.I

s/n LM169

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 169

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM170, Mk.I

s/n LM170

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 170

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM171, Mk.I

s/n LM171

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 171

Merlin

May have been with No. 103 Sqn Jun 1944 before moving to No. 44 Sqn (KM-R). Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-29 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Kenneth Henry Irwin 2021-05-10
1944-July-29 PoW RCAF Sergeant L E Patterson 2023-09-23

Lancaster LM172, Mk.I

s/n LM172

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 172

Merlin

Delivered to No. 300 Sqn (BH-Q) Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Russelsheim 25/26 Aug 1944. 43 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-26 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Paul Peters 2021-08-16

Lancaster LM173, Mk.I

s/n LM173

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 173

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM174, Mk.I

s/n LM174

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 174

Merlin

Delivered to No. 625 Sqn (CF-P) Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Kiel 23/24 Jul 1944. 66 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-24 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Kenneth Welland Dewey 2024-10-17
1944-July-24 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Lorne Albert Morfoot 2024-10-17
1944-July-24 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Harold Alexander Smith 2024-10-17

Lancaster LM175, Mk.I

s/n LM175

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 175

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM176, Mk.I

s/n LM176

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 176

Merlin

With 166 Sqn. Crashed at Kirmington on approach to landing on return from operation to Karlsruhe 4 Dec 1944
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant William Russell Darling 2024-09-04
1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Cecil Allen Fowler 2024-09-04
1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Stanley Roy Hanna 2024-09-04
1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Douglas Studholme Howard 2024-09-04
1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Charles Wilbert Macklaier 2024-10-07
1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 William Peter Wynnyk 2024-09-04

Lancaster LM177, Mk.I

s/n LM177

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 177

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM178, Mk.I

s/n LM178

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 178

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-July-25 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Irving Duguid 2024-10-29
1944-July-25 Evader RCAF Flying Officer C M Forman 2021-02-01
1944-July-25 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant James Rheubottom 2023-09-27
1944-July-25 Evader RCAF Flying Officer W W Robinson 2021-02-01

Lancaster LM179, Mk.I

s/n LM179

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 179

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM180, Mk.I

s/n LM180

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 180

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM181, Mk.I

s/n LM181

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 181

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM182, Mk.I

s/n LM182

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 182

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM183, Mk.I

s/n LM183

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 183

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harold Francis Sargent Best 2024-11-12
1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Hugo Hysert Borchardt 2024-11-14

Lancaster LM184, Mk.I

s/n LM184

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 184

Merlin

Delivered to No. 90 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Stettin 29/30 Aug 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Martin Turachek 2024-03-07

Lancaster LM185, Mk.I

s/n LM185

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 185

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM186, Mk.I

s/n LM186

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 186

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM187, Mk.I

s/n LM187

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 187

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM188, Mk.I

s/n LM188

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 188

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM189, Mk.I

s/n LM189

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 189

Merlin

Delivered to No. 90 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Homburg 20/21 Jul 1944
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Arthur McKim 2021-08-17

Lancaster LM190, Mk.I

s/n LM190

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 190

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM191, Mk.I

s/n LM191

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 191

Merlin

Originally with No. 49 Sqn Jun/Jul 1944. Transferred to No. 619 Sqn (PG-O) Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Darmstadt 11/12 Sep 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Elmer Kenneth Carlson 2024-05-17
1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Cyril Bernard Dockrey 2024-10-23
1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Elmer Joseph Alexander MacNair 2024-10-23
1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Joseph Reginald Potts 2024-10-23

Lancaster LM192, Mk.I

s/n LM192

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 192

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM205, Mk.I

s/n LM205

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 205

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM206, Mk.I

s/n LM206

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 206

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM207, Mk.I

s/n LM207

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 207

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM208, Mk.I

s/n LM208

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 208

Merlin

Delivered to No. 207 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing from Gardening sortie 15/16 Oct 1944. 122 flying hours
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Lynden Arnold McIntyre 2023-08-30
1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Anderson Whitehead 2023-08-30

Lancaster LM209, Mk.I

s/n LM209

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 209

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class Lloyd George Evans 2024-05-26

Lancaster LM210, Mk.I

s/n LM210

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 210

Merlin

Delivered to No. 50 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944. 83 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Thomas George Curphey 2024-06-02
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Mervyn Lloyd George Lovering 2024-06-05
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Gordon Edwin Sholte 2024-06-28

Lancaster LM211, Mk.I

s/n LM211

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 211

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM212, Mk.I

s/n LM212

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 212

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM213, Mk.I

s/n LM213

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 213

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Douglas James Bailey 2024-11-04
1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William James Glass 2024-11-27
1945-January-16 PoW RCAF Sergeant Al F Hymers 2024-11-27
1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Kerluk 2024-11-27
1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald Erwin Linington 2024-11-27

Lancaster LM214, Mk.I

s/n LM214

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 214

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM215, Mk.I

s/n LM215

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 215

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM216, Mk.I

s/n LM216

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 216

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM217, Mk.I

s/n LM217

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 217

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM218, Mk.I

s/n LM218

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 218

Merlin

Delivered to No 207 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to St. Leu d'Esserent 7/8 Jul 1944
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-08 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Allan Cameron Sutherland 2023-10-26

Lancaster LM219, Mk.I

s/n LM219

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 219

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM220, Mk.I

s/n LM220

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 220

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM221, Mk.I

s/n LM221

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 221

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-July-13 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Frederick Armstrong 2024-11-03
1944-July-13 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Alfred Martin Hallett 2023-10-11

Lancaster LM222, Mk.I

s/n LM222

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 222

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM223, Mk.I

s/n LM223

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 223

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM224, Mk.I

s/n LM224

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 224

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM225, Mk.I

s/n LM225

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 225

Merlin

Delivered to No. 12 Sqn Jun 1943. Missing on operation to Kiel 26/27 Aug 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-27 KIA RAFVR Sergeant David George Northcott 2021-08-17

Lancaster LM226, Mk.I

s/n LM226

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 226

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM227, Mk.I

s/n LM227

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 227

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM228, Mk.I

s/n LM228

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 228

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM229, Mk.I

s/n LM229

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 229

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM230, Mk.I

s/n LM230

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 230

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM231, Mk.I

s/n LM231

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 231

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM232, Mk.I

s/n LM232

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 232

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM233, Mk.I

s/n LM233

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 233

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM234, Mk.I

s/n LM234

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 234

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM235, Mk.I

s/n LM235

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 235

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM236, Mk.I

s/n LM236

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 236

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM237, Mk.I

s/n LM237

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 237

Merlin

Delivered to No. 467 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Konigsburg 29/30 Aug 1944. 148 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05

Bombing Konigsberg Germany 1944-08-30 to 1944-08-30

467 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Waddington, England
467 Australia Squadron. Lancaster aircraft LM 237 went missing during a night trip to Konigsberg, Germany, and was believed to have crashed at sea. RCAF Flying Officer J. Sutcliffe was taken Prisoner of War. Casualties included RCAF Flt. Sgt. P.W. O'Leary; RAF Sgt's. C. Alexander, C. Pearson, E.C. Reid; and RAF Flight Lieutenant D.B. Tattersall.
1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Patrick William O'Leary 2022-07-26
1944-August-30 PoW RCAF Flying Officer John Sutcliffe 2023-08-10

Lancaster LM238, Mk.I

s/n LM238

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 238

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM239, Mk.I

s/n LM239

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 239

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM240, Mk.I

s/n LM240

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 240

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM241, Mk.I

s/n LM241

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 241

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM242, Mk.I

s/n LM242

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 242

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM243, Mk.I

s/n LM243

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 243

Merlin

Delivered to No. 103 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Agenville, France 31 Aug 1944. 136 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-31 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Norman Thomas James 2023-12-15
1944-August-31 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donald Arthur Ryerse 2021-10-01

Lancaster LM257, Mk.I

s/n LM257

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 257

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM258, Mk.I

s/n LM258

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 258

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM259, Mk.I

s/n LM259

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 259

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM260, Mk.I

s/n LM260

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 260

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM261, Mk.I

s/n LM261

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 261

Merlin

Delivered to No. 207 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Darmstadt 11/12 Sep 1944. 143 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Edward Joseph Brian 2024-11-18
1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ronald Burtis Gowan 2023-08-23
1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Joseph Milne 2023-08-23
1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Wilbur Lee Moxley 2023-08-23

Lancaster LM262, Mk.I

s/n LM262

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 262

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM263, Mk.I

s/n LM263

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 263

Merlin

Delivered to No. 207 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on a daylight raid on Deelen15 Aug 1944. 71 flying hours
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Auld Swinton 2021-07-21
1944-August-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Alick Watt 2021-07-10

Lancaster LM264, Mk.I

s/n LM264

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 264

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM265, Mk.I

s/n LM265

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 265

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM266, Mk.I

s/n LM266

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 266

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM267, Mk.I

s/n LM267

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 267

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM268, Mk.I

s/n LM268

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 268

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM269, Mk.I

s/n LM269

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 269

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-August-18 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Gordon Alan Bullock 2024-11-23

Lancaster LM270, Mk.I

s/n LM270

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 270

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM271, Mk.I

s/n LM271

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 271

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM272, Mk.I

s/n LM272

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 272

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM273, Mk.I

s/n LM273

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 273

Merlin

Delivered to No. 550 Sqn Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Pforzheim 23/24 Feb 1945.
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-February-23 PoW RCAF Flying Officer D H Grundy 2023-08-24
1945-February-23 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class R C McLauchlan 2023-09-14
1945-February-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Roy Tyldesley Sowter 2024-06-28

Lancaster LM274, Mk.I

s/n LM274

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 274

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM275, Mk.I

s/n LM275

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 275

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM276, Mk.I

s/n LM276

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 276

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM277, Mk.I

s/n LM277

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 277

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM278, Mk.I

s/n LM278

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 278

Merlin

Delivered to No. 57 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on Gardening operation 26/27 Aug 1944. 190 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Austin Thomas Clark DFC 2024-02-23
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Leonard Knut Johnson 2023-01-08
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Harold William Lugg 2021-08-14
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Hudson McNabb 2021-08-17

Lancaster LM279, Mk.I

s/n LM279

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 279

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM280, Mk.I

s/n LM280

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 280

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM281, Mk.I

s/n LM281

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 281

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM282, Mk.I

s/n LM282

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 282

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM283, Mk.I

s/n LM283

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 283

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM284, Mk.I

s/n LM284

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 284

Merlin

Per 1944 Lincolnshire Aviation Incident Log, aircraft was delivered to 57 Squadron. Crashed after post-delivery air test with only 2 hours flight time. Test crew were from 207 Squadron.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-30 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Frederick Willis Logan DFC 2022-01-23

Lancaster LM285, Mk.I

s/n LM285

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 285

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM286, Mk.I

s/n LM286

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 286

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM287, Mk.I

s/n LM287

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 287

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM288, Mk.I

s/n LM288

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 288

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM289, Mk.I

s/n LM289

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 289

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM290, Mk.I

s/n LM290

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 290

Merlin

Delivered to No. 626 Sqn (UM-W2) Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Bochum 4/5 Nov 1944. 193 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-November-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Walter Le Roy Cook DFC 2024-04-04
1944-November-04 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Kenneth Corbett McCormick 2023-08-07
1944-November-04 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Eric Smith 2023-08-07
1944-November-04 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Henry Sulz 2023-08-07

Lancaster LM291, Mk.I

s/n LM291

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 291

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM292, Mk.I

s/n LM292

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 292

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-August-08 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George Chahoon Brown 2024-11-21

Lancaster LM293, Mk.I

s/n LM293

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 293

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM294, Mk.I

s/n LM294

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 294

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM295, Mk.I

s/n LM295

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 295

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM296, Mk.I

s/n LM296

Armstrong Whitworth

LM 296

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM301, Mk.I/III

s/n LM301

Avro

LM 301

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM302, Mk.I/III

s/n LM302

Avro

LM 302

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM303, Mk.I/III

s/n LM303

Avro

LM 303

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1943-February-11 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ross Maddaugh Agnew 2024-11-01
1943-February-11 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Victor Charles Hayward 2021-08-09
1943-February-11 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Turner Hunt 2021-08-10

Lancaster LM304, Mk.I/III

s/n LM304

Avro

LM 304

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM305, Mk.I/III

s/n LM305

Avro

LM 305

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM306, Mk.I/III

s/n LM306

Avro

LM 306

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-March-19 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant James Lauren Gourlay 2021-05-19

Lancaster LM307, Mk.I/III

s/n LM307

Avro

LM 307

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1943-December-16 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert William Baldwin 2024-11-05
1943-December-16 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer William Hedley Eager DFC 2024-10-31

Lancaster LM308, Mk.I/III

s/n LM308

Avro

LM 308

Merlin

Originally produced as Mk. I, converted to Mk. III. Was with No. 1661CU, then No. 5 LFS. Caught fire and crashed at Syerston 29 Jan 1945.
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-January-29 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Alexander Emerson 2021-08-06
1945-January-29 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon 2021-08-06
1945-January-29 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Hugh Munro Mackenzie 2023-12-13
1945-January-29 KIFA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Richard Barlow Rathbone 2023-12-13
1945-January-29 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Henry Reid 2023-12-13

Lancaster LM309, Mk.I/III

s/n LM309

Avro

LM 309

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM310, Mk.I/III

s/n LM310

Avro

LM 310

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM311, Mk.I/III

s/n LM311

Avro

LM 311

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM312, Mk.I/III

s/n LM312

Avro

LM 312

Merlin

With No. 101 Sqn (SR-U) Apr- Sep 1943. Transferred to No. 166 Sqn. Missing on operation to Leipzig 20/21 Oct 1943.
last update: 2025-February-05
1943-October-20 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant George Rodney Alexander Walkem 2024-05-03
1943-October-20 KIA RCAF Sergeant James Ivan Wilson 2024-05-03

Lancaster LM313, Mk.I/III

s/n LM313

Avro

LM 313

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM314, Mk.I/III

s/n LM314

Avro

LM 314

Merlin

Successively with Nos. 157, 97 (OF-R) and 103 Sqns. Missing on operation to Kassel 22/23 Oct 1943. 259 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1943-October-22 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Glenn Geoffrey Sveinson 2021-07-21

Lancaster LM315, Mk.I/III

s/n LM315

Avro

LM 315

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Bombing Schweinfurt Germany 1944-02-25 to 1944-02-25

460 () Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft LM 315 was part of a mission to bomb Schweinfurt, Germany, a centre specialising in the manufacture of ball bearings vital to the German war effort. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed near the target, at Manibach. Killed were RCAF Pilot Officer L.L.N. De Celles (air gunner) and Flying Officer A.R. Mark (bomb aimer); RAF Sgt's. M. Goldman (wireless operator), D.J. Halle (flight engineer), N.H. Lerigo (air gunner); RAF Flt. Sgt's. F. Lloyd (navigator) and R. Yates (pilot).
1944-February-25 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Leo Lorne Norman De Celles 2024-10-07
1944-February-25 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Alfred Rothwell Mark 2024-10-07

Lancaster LM316, Mk.I/III

s/n LM316

Avro

LM 316

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM317, Mk.I/III

s/n LM317

Avro

LM 317

Merlin

Originally to No. 100 Sqn (HW-D and HW-D2) April or May 1943. Transferred to No. 625 Sqn (CF-U) Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Mailly-le-Camp, France, 3/4 May 1944. Although the operation was a success, many aircraft were lost because of delays in target marking and bad communications. 483 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-May-04 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class John Albert Reynolds 2024-02-03

Lancaster LM318, Mk.I/III

s/n LM318

Avro

LM 318

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1943-June-26 KIA RAF Sergeant William Alfred Bush 2024-11-25

Lancaster LM319, Mk.I/III

s/n LM319

Avro

LM 319

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-May-22 KIA RAF Flight Sergeant Francis James William Smith 2021-05-17

Lancaster LM320, Mk.I/III

s/n LM320

Avro

LM 320

Merlin

Delivered to No. 100 Sqn (HW-C) 8 May 1943. Missing on operation to Dusseldorf 25/26 May 1943.
last update: 2025-February-05
1943-May-26 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Henry Neville Petts 2021-08-14

Lancaster LM321, Mk.I/III

s/n LM321

Avro

LM 321

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM322, Mk.I/III

s/n LM322

Avro

LM 322

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM323, Mk.I/III

s/n LM323

Avro

LM 323

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM324, Mk.I/III

s/n LM324

Avro

LM 324

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM325, Mk.I/III

s/n LM325

Avro

LM 325

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM326, Mk.I/III

s/n LM326

Avro

LM 326

Merlin

Delivered to No. 207 Sqn (EM-Z) 31 May 1943. Missing on operation to Hanover 19 Oct 1943. 267 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1943-October-19 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Cecil Rayle Smith 2023-10-01

Lancaster LM327, Mk.I/III

s/n LM327

Avro

LM 327

Merlin

Delivered to No. 97 Sqn Jun 1943. Missing on operation to Wuppertal 24/25 Jun 1943.
last update: 2025-February-05
1943-June-25 KIA RCAF Squadron Leader James Parker McMillin 2021-09-28

Lancaster LM328, Mk.I/III

s/n LM328

Avro

LM 328

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM329, Mk.I/III

s/n LM329

Avro

LM 329

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM330, Mk.I/III

s/n LM330

Avro

LM 330

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM331, Mk.I/III

s/n LM331

Avro

LM 331

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM332, Mk.I/III

s/n LM332

Avro

LM 332

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM333, Mk.I/III

s/n LM333

Avro

LM 333

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Bombing Berlin Germany 1943-08-23 to 1943-08-23

100 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Grimsby

100 Squadron RAF (Sarang tebaun jangan dijolok) RAF Grimsby. Lancaster BIII aircraft LM 333 HW-V was struck by heavy flak from a Marine Flak Battery crossing the Dutch coastline on the way to attack targets in Berlin, Germany. The port outer engine failed and the order to bail was given before the bomber exploded and crashed near De Franschman between Bergen and Bergen aan Zee, Noord-Holland

Pilot Officer FA Preston (RAAF) and Sergeant H Chadwick (RAFVR) were killed in action

Warrant Officer Class 1 JJ Adelstein (RCAF) and Sergeant J Noble (RAFVR) survived and were taken as Prisoners of War

Sergeant EJ Gargini (RAFVR) and Warrant Officer EA Henry (RAFVR) survived, evaded for a time but were captured and became Prisoners of War

Sergeant R Fidler (RAFVR) survived as an Evader, avoided capture and eventually made his way back to the UK 1944-01-23

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1943-August-23 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer John Jacob 'Hank' Adelstein 2024-11-01
1943-August-23 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Harold Chadwick 2024-01-25
1943-August-23 Evader RAFVR Sergeant Royce Fidler 2023-04-20
1943-August-23 PoW RAFVR Sergeant Eric John "Garge" Gargini 2023-04-20
1943-August-23 PoW RAFVR Warrant Officer Albert Edward Henry 2023-04-20
1943-August-23 PoW RAFVR Sergeant James "Jock" Noble 2023-04-20
1943-August-23 KIA RAAF Pilot Officer Francis Albert Preston 2023-04-20

Lancaster LM334, Mk.I/III

s/n LM334

Avro

LM 334

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM335, Mk.I/III

s/n LM335

Avro

LM 335

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM336, Mk.I/III

s/n LM336

Avro

LM 336

Merlin

Delivered to No. 57 Sqn (DX-G) Jul 1943. Missing on operation to Mannheim 23/24 Sep 1943.
last update: 2025-February-05
1943-September-24 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 William Henry Arnold 2024-11-03
1943-September-24 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Peter Campbell Gordon 2023-10-11
1943-September-24 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Joe Douglas Hogan 2023-10-11
1943-September-24 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Raymond Norman Millar 2023-10-11

Lancaster LM337, Mk.I/III

s/n LM337

Avro

LM 337

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM338, Mk.I/III

s/n LM338

Avro

LM 338

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM339, Mk.I/III

s/n LM339

Avro

LM 339

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM340, Mk.I/III

s/n LM340

Avro

LM 340

Merlin

Operated by No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*O and "LQ*H". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.
last update: 2025-February-05

Lancaster LM341, Mk.I/III

s/n LM341

Avro

LM 341

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM342, Mk.I/III

s/n LM342

Avro

LM 342

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Bombing Peenemunde Germany 1943-08-18 to 1943-08-18

467 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Bottesford, Lincolnshire, England
467 Australia Squadron. Lancaster aircraft LM 342 failed to return from night operations. RCAF Flying Officer R.G. Carter was killed. Casualties also included the following RAF members of the crew: Sqn. Leader A.S. Raphael, Pilot Officer D. Fielden, Flight Lieutenant M.H. Parry, Flight Sergeant F.B. Garrett, Sgt's. A.C. Brand, F. Grey, and V. Smith.
1943-August-18 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ronald George Carter DFC 2024-01-13

Lancaster LM343, Mk.I/III

s/n LM343

Avro

LM 343

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM344, Mk.I/III

s/n LM344

Avro

LM 344

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-January-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Frank Edward Lampin 2021-08-13

Lancaster LM345, Mk.I/III

s/n LM345

Avro

LM 345

Merlin

Operated by No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*L". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Attacked by Ju 88 on run in to target (Brunswick) on 25 September 1943. Several fires and other damage resulted, load was jettisoned, two engines shut down and aircraft tried to return home at 100 knots. Third engine failed near Gronigen, Holland, and crew bailed out. At least one POW.
last update: 2025-February-05
   1943-September-25 Failed to Return Failed to return from raid on Brunswick 2019-08-20

Bombing Brunswick Germany 1943-09-27 to 1943-09-28

405 () () RAF Gransden Lodge

Operated by No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*L". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Attacked by Ju 88 on run in to target (Brunswick) on 25 September 1943. Several fires and other damage resulted, load was jettisoned, two engines shut down and aircraft tried to return home at 100 knots. Third engine failed near Gronigen, Holland, and crew bailed out. At least one POW.

FS WM Gorman (RCAF), S/L(A) LE Logan DFC CG w/Silver Star (RCAF), FS FC Boulter (RCAF), Pilot Officer A Livesey (RAF), FS GL Watts (RAF), FS AJ Holden (RAF) and FS WD Ridgeway (RAF) baled and survived. Pilot Officer Livesey was taken Prisoner of War soon after but most of the crew managed to evade, some for a period of months before being captured by the Gestapo to become Prisoners of War. Flight Sergeant GL Watts however, evaded and avoided capture

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1943-September-28 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Boulter 2025-02-02
1943-September-28 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Wilfred Melvin Gorman 2025-02-02
1943-September-28 PoW RCAF Squadron Leader Lloyd Emerson Logan DFC, CDGF 2025-02-02

Lancaster LM346, Mk.I/III

s/n LM346

Avro

LM 346

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM359, Mk.I/III

s/n LM359

Avro

LM 359

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM360, Mk.I/III

s/n LM360

Avro

LM 360

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM361, Mk.I/III

s/n LM361

Avro

LM 361

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM362, Mk.I/III

s/n LM362

Avro

LM 362

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM363, Mk.I/III

s/n LM363

Avro

LM 363

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM364, Mk.I/III

s/n LM364

Avro

LM 364

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM365, Mk.I/III

s/n LM365

Avro

LM 365

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM366, Mk.I/III

s/n LM366

Avro

LM 366

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM367, Mk.I/III

s/n LM367

Avro

LM 367

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM368, Mk.I/III

s/n LM368

Avro

LM 368

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM369, Mk.I/III

s/n LM369

Avro

LM 369

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM370, Mk.I/III

s/n LM370

Avro

LM 370

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1943-November-18 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class George Philip Herman 2021-09-21

Lancaster LM371, Mk.I/III

s/n LM371

Avro

LM 371

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1943-December-30 PoW RCAF Sergeant Murray Cohen 2024-03-13

Lancaster LM372, Mk.I/III

s/n LM372

Avro

LM 372

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM373, Mk.I/III

s/n LM373

Avro

LM 373

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM374, Mk.I/III

s/n LM374

Avro

LM 374

Merlin

Delivered to No. 44 Sqn (KM-S) Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 23/24 Nov 1943. 56 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1943-November-24 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Roy Cecil Strickland 2021-07-21

Lancaster LM375, Mk.I/III

s/n LM375

Avro

LM 375

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM376, Mk.I/III

s/n LM376

Avro

LM 376

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM377, Mk.I/III

s/n LM377

Avro

LM 377

Merlin

Delivered to No. 106 Sq, then transferred to No. 61 Sqn Nov. 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 1/2 Jan 1944. 104 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-January-02 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George Edward Sharpe 2021-08-01

Lancaster LM378, Mk.I/III

s/n LM378

Avro

LM 378

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM379, Mk.I/III

s/n LM379

Avro

LM 379

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1943-November-26 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant John William Lowe 2021-06-20

Lancaster LM380, Mk.I/III

s/n LM380

Avro

LM 380

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM381, Mk.I/III

s/n LM381

Avro

LM 381

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM382, Mk.I/III

s/n LM382

Avro

LM 382

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM383, Mk.I/III

s/n LM383

Avro

LM 383

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-January-14 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Thomas Bowskill 2023-10-22
1944-January-14 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Gordon Joseph Ferguson 2025-02-15

Lancaster LM384, Mk.I/III

s/n LM384

Avro

LM 384

Merlin

Delivered to No. 625 Sqn (CFC-X) 11 Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Leipzig 19/20 Feb 1944. 161 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Jack Verner Pearl 2021-09-29

Lancaster LM385, Mk.I/III

s/n LM385

Avro

LM 385

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1943-December-16 KIA RCAF Sergeant Ward William James Allen 2024-11-02
1943-December-16 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Bruce Wismer Haney 2021-08-09

Lancaster LM386, Mk.I/III

s/n LM386

Avro

LM 386

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM387, Mk.I/III

s/n LM387

Avro

LM 387

Merlin

Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-O) from No. 32 MU 19 Dec 1943. Equipped with ABC radio jamming equipment. Missing on operation to 21 Jan 1944. 50 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Norman Garth Dowler 2024-10-28
1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Sheldon William Weeley Perry 2021-08-16

Lancaster LM388, Mk.I/III

s/n LM388

Avro

LM 388

Merlin

Delivered to No. 166 Sqn (AS-G) 15 Nov 1943. Missing on mission to Revigny 12/13 July 1944. 335 flying hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-13 Evader RCAF Sergeant M G Walsh 2021-06-02

Lancaster LM389, Mk.I/III

s/n LM389

Avro

LM 389

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM390, Mk.I/III

s/n LM390

Avro

LM 390

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM391, Mk.I/III

s/n LM391

Avro

LM 391

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM392, Mk.I/III

s/n LM392

Avro

LM 392

Merlin

Delivered to No. 166 Sqn Nov 1943. Transferred to No. 550 Sqn (BQ-J) Feb 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 15/16 Feb 1944. 155 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-March-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Victor Moss 2023-09-21

Lancaster LM393, Mk.I/III

s/n LM393

Avro

LM 393

Merlin

Delivered to No. 626 Sqn (UM-W2) 26 Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 24/25 Mar 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-March-24 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Hance Logan Shortliffe 2024-05-03

Lancaster LM394, Mk.I/III

s/n LM394

Avro

LM 394

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-March-31 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Thomas Wilbert Lavery 2021-08-13

Lancaster LM395, Mk.I/III

s/n LM395

Avro

LM 395

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-May-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Charles Marie Beauregard 2024-11-10
1944-May-23 PoW RNZAF Leslie Nicolis Davidson 2024-10-31
1944-May-23 PoW RAF Norman Ellis Gregory 2025-01-05
1944-May-23 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William John Hayman 2025-01-05
1944-May-23 PoW RAF Isaac David Jacobs 2025-01-05
1944-May-23 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Joseph William Johnson 2025-01-05
1944-May-23 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Robert Milligan McLure 2025-01-05
1944-May-23 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Lionel Herbert Milligan 2025-01-05

Lancaster LM417, Mk.I/III

s/n LM417

Avro

LM 417

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM418, Mk.I/III

s/n LM418

Avro

LM 418

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM419, Mk.I/III

s/n LM419

Avro

LM 419

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-February-25 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Erle Keith Williams 2024-07-12

Lancaster LM420, Mk.I/III

s/n LM420

Avro

LM 420

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM421, Mk.I/III

s/n LM421

Avro

LM 421

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM422, Mk.I/III

s/n LM422

Avro

LM 422

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-March-22 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Richard Charles Collins 2024-04-29

Lancaster LM423, Mk.I/III

s/n LM423

Avro

LM 423

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-January-02 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Robert Williamson Braid 2024-11-17

Lancaster LM424, Mk.I/III

s/n LM424

Avro

LM 424

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1943-December-16 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant William Dennis Crimmins DFC 2024-05-16

Lancaster LM425, Mk.I/III

s/n LM425

Avro

LM 425

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM426, Mk.I/III

s/n LM426

Avro

LM 426

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM427, Mk.I/III

s/n LM427

Avro

LM 427

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-June-01 PoW RCAF Sergeant John William Bradley 2024-11-16
1944-June-01 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Frances Samuel Brydon 2024-11-23
1944-June-01 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Thomas Rupert Hodgson 2024-07-16

Lancaster LM428, Mk.I/III

s/n LM428

Avro

LM 428

Merlin

Delivered to No. 50 Sqn Dec 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 28/29 Jan 1944. 82 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-January-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Gordon Richard Presland 2024-05-01

Lancaster LM429, Mk.I/III

s/n LM429

Avro

LM 429

Merlin

Delivered to No. 50 Sqn (VN-T) Dec 1943. Missing on operation to Lille 10/11 May 1944. 270 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-May-11 KIA RCAF Sergeant Robert Norval Cunningham 2024-06-01
1944-May-11 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Wallace Milton Ross 2023-08-26

Lancaster LM430, Mk.I/III

s/n LM430

Avro

LM 430

Merlin

Delivered to No. 9 Sqn (WS-B) 20 Dec 1943. Missing on raid to Frankfurt 22/23 Mar 1944
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-March-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Peter Warywoda 2023-08-09

Lancaster LM431, Mk.I/III

s/n LM431

Avro

LM 431

Merlin

Delivered to No. 467 (Australian) Sqn 29 Dec 1943. Missing on operation to Stettin 5/6 Jan 1944. 5 operational hours (Robertson) although Mason shows operation to Berlin on 1/2 Jan 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05

Bombing Stettin Germany 1944-01-06 to 1944-01-06

467 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, England
467 Australia Squadron. Lancaster aircraft Mk III LM 431 failed to return from a trip to Stettin, Germany, and is deemed lost without trace. Casualties included RCAF F/Sgt. H.S. Reid and W/O II L.M. Jackson; RAAF Pilot Officer F.A. Connolly; RAF F/Sgt's. L.A. Jeffries and H.S. Reid, and RAF Sgt's. R.W.J. Evans, D.A. Briggs, and M. Turner.
1944-January-06 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Leonard Maccallum Jackson 2022-12-31
1944-January-06 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Herbert Spencer Reid 2022-07-26

Lancaster LM432, Mk.I/III

s/n LM432

Avro

LM 432

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM433, Mk.I/III

s/n LM433

Avro

LM 433

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-February-24 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Stefan August Loftson 2024-06-05

Lancaster LM434, Mk.I/III

s/n LM434

Avro

LM 434

Merlin

Delivered to No. 44 Sqn (KM-F) 28 Dec 1943. Missing on operation to Wesseling 21/22 June 1944. 256 Operational hours
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-22 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Richard Schott 2023-09-28
1944-June-22 Evader RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class L P Tobin 2021-03-31
1944-June-22 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Campbell Willson 2023-08-23

Lancaster LM435, Mk.I/III

s/n LM435

Avro

LM 435

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM436, Mk.I/III

s/n LM436

Avro

LM 436

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM437, Mk.I/III

s/n LM437

Avro

LM 437

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-May-04 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Gordon Herbert Hobson 2024-03-15
1944-May-04 KIA RCAF Sergeant Eric Houlden 2024-03-15

Lancaster LM438, Mk.I/III

s/n LM438

Avro

LM 438

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM439, Mk.I/III

s/n LM439

Avro

LM 439

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-August-18 PoW RCAF Flying Officer James Andrew Armstrong 2024-12-03
1944-August-18 KIA RCAF Flt. Sergeant Herman Backler 2024-12-03
1944-August-18 KIA RCAF Flt. Sergeant Lloyd L. Johnston 2024-12-03

Lancaster LM440, Mk.I/III

s/n LM440

Avro

LM 440

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM441, Mk.I/III

s/n LM441

Avro

LM 441

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM442, Mk.I/III

s/n LM442

Avro

LM 442

Merlin

Delivered to No. 622 Sqn (GI-P) Jan 1944. Missing o9n operation to Schweinfurt 24/25 Feb 1944. 52 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-February-25 KIA RCAF Flt. Lieutenant Peter Hartley Doig 2024-10-24
1944-February-25 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Reginald Henry Murray Pratt 2023-09-25

Lancaster LM443, Mk.I/III

s/n LM443

Avro

LM 443

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM444, Mk.I/III

s/n LM444

Avro

LM 444

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM445, Mk.I/III

s/n LM445

Avro

LM 445

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM446, Mk.I/III

s/n LM446

Avro

LM 446

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM447, Mk.I/III

s/n LM447

Avro

LM 447

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM448, Mk.I/III

s/n LM448

Avro

LM 448

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM449,

s/n LM449

LM 449


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM450, Mk.I/III

s/n LM450

Avro

LM 450

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM451, Mk.I/III

s/n LM451

Avro

LM 451

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM452, Mk.I/III

s/n LM452

Avro

LM 452

Merlin

Delivered to No. 61 Sqn (QR-T) Jan 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944. 366 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05

Bombing Stuttgart Germany 1944-07-29 to 1944-07-29

(B) Sqn (RAF) Skellingthorpe

STUTTGART 494 Lancasters and 2 Mosquitoes of 1, 3, 5 and 8 Groups in the last raid of the current series on this target. German fighters intercepted the bomber stream while over France on the outward flight; there was a bright moon and 39 Lancasters were shot down, 7Ã"šÃ‚·9 per cent of the force.source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt

1944-July-29 Murdered RCAF Flying Officer Peter Paul Brosko 2024-11-20
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer David Fraser Currie 2024-06-03
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Wallace Allan Mackie 2025-03-06
1944-July-29 KIA RAFVR Warrant Officer William Reddington MacPherson 2025-03-06
1944-July-29 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Raymond Gerald McMillan 2025-03-06
1944-July-29 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Gerald Harry Postins 2025-03-06
1944-July-29 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William James Smith 2025-03-06

Lancaster LM453, Mk.I/III

s/n LM453

Avro

LM 453

Merlin

Delivered to No. 9 Sqn (WS-E) 25 Jan 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Rilly-la-Montagne 31 Jul 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John Stodart Anderson 2024-11-02
1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John Kerfoot 2023-10-11
1944-July-31 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Francis McKinney 2023-10-11
1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William Edward Moseley 2023-10-11
1944-July-31 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas James Peacore 2023-10-11
1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant William David Phillips 2023-10-11
1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer Charles Edward Michael Worner 2022-05-13

Lancaster LM454, Mk.I/III

s/n LM454

Avro

LM 454

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM455, Mk.I/III

s/n LM455

Avro

LM 455

Merlin

Delivered to No. 550 Sqn (BQ-T) Feb 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944. 318 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert William Archer 2024-11-02
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Paul Martin Roche 2024-01-20

Lancaster LM456, Mk.I/III

s/n LM456

Avro

LM 456

Merlin

Delivered to No. 15 Sqn (LS-C) 4 Feb 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 20/21 Feb 1944. 16 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-February-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Forrest 2024-05-26
1944-February-21 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Joseph Vincent Russell CGM 2024-06-28

Lancaster LM457, Mk.I/III

s/n LM457

Avro

LM 457

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM458, Mk.I/III

s/n LM458

Avro

LM 458

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM459, Mk.I/III

s/n LM459

Avro

LM 459

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-May-28 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Joseph Friedt 2021-08-06

Lancaster LM460, Mk.I/III

s/n LM460

Avro

LM 460

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM461, Mk.I/III

s/n LM461

Avro

LM 461

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM462, Mk.I/III

s/n LM462

Avro

LM 462

Merlin

Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-V2) Feb 1944. Fitted with ABC jamming equipment. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 July 1944. 248 flying hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Albert William Tuuri 2024-02-07

Lancaster LM463, Mk.I/III

s/n LM463

Avro

LM 463

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM464, Mk.I/III

s/n LM464

Avro

LM 464

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-March-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Sydney Leonard Huntley 2021-08-10

Lancaster LM465, Mk.I/III

s/n LM465

Avro

LM 465

Merlin

Delivered to No. 15 Sqn (LS-U) 16 Feb 1944. Missing 12/13 June 1944 on operation to Gelsenkirchen. 169 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-13 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Ronald George Lemky 2021-08-13
1944-June-13 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Roderick McMillan 2021-08-17
1944-June-13 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Carlton Stewart Thompson 2021-07-20

Lancaster LM466, Mk.I/III

s/n LM466

Avro

LM 466

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM467, Mk.I/III

s/n LM467

Avro

LM 467

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM468, Mk.I/III

s/n LM468

Avro

LM 468

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM469, Mk.I/III

s/n LM469

Avro

LM 469

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM470, Mk.I/III

s/n LM470

Avro

LM 470

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM471, Mk.I/III

s/n LM471

Avro

LM 471

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-March-25 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Allan Charter Harper 2021-05-22

Lancaster LM472, Mk.I/III

s/n LM472

Avro

LM 472

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Jack Karl Armour 2024-11-03

Lancaster LM473, Mk.I/III

s/n LM473

Avro

LM 473

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM474, Mk.I/III

s/n LM474

Avro

LM 474

Merlin

Delivered from No. 32 MU to 101 Squadron (SR-N2) 5 Mar 1944. Equipped with ABC. Missing on operation to Sterkrade, 16/17 Jun 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer David Kenneth Adair 2024-11-01
1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Sergeant Willard Vernon Ireland 2021-08-11
1944-June-17 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Duncan Traylen McKillop 2023-07-22
1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Gordon George Welch 2021-07-09
1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Shaw Winder 2021-07-07

Lancaster LM475, Mk.I/III

s/n LM475

Avro

LM 475

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM476, Mk.I/III

s/n LM476

Avro

LM 476

Merlin

Delivered to No. 619 Sqn (PG-M) 6 Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Givors, France. 26/27 Jul 1944. 476 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-April-23 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Hedley Charles Cornick Goodyear 2021-11-06

Lancaster LM477, Mk.I/III

s/n LM477

Avro

LM 477

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM478, Mk.I/III

s/n LM478

Avro

LM 478

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM479, Mk.I/III

s/n LM479

Avro

LM 479

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Bombing Stettin Germany 1944-08-29 to 1944-08-30

101 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Ludford Magna

101 Squadron (Men Agitat Molem) RAF Ludford Magna. Lancaster LM 479 SR-F was coded "ABC" for Airborne Cigar. The ABC designation was use to identify aircraft as being specially equipped with three receiving antenna and one transmitter to jam German aircraft radio messages. In order to use the ABC equipment, an eighth crew member, who could speak German, was added to the normal complement of seven. The special equipment operator on Lancaster LM 479 for the operation against targets in Stettin, Germany was 20-year-old Cyril Cousin, the youngest of the crew. The average age of a bomber crew was only 22 years old

Lancaster LM 479 SR-F was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Rudolf Szardenings of 5/NJG3, crashing at Dejbjerg, NW of Skjern, Denmark with the lost of the entire crew

Flying Officer Thomas Foster (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Alfred Reid Chalmers (RCAF), Pilot Officer Hubert Joseph Linn (RCAF), Flying Officer Samuel Albert MacKenzie (RCAF), Pilot Officer Cyril Cousin (RAFVR), Sergeant George Frederick Gibson (RAFVR), Warrant Officer William Owen (RAFVR) and Sergeant Andrew Stewart (RAFVR) were all killed in action

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 4 24 July - 15 October by Theo Boiten, page 64

General 101 Squadron Lancaster III LM479 SR-F Flying Officer Thomas Foster RAF Ludford...

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1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Alfred Reid Chalmers 2025-02-03
1944-August-30 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer Cyril Cousin 2025-02-03
1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Thomas Foster 2025-02-03
1944-August-30 KIA RAFVR Sergeant George Frederick Gibson 2025-02-03
1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Hubert Joseph Linn 2025-02-03
1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Samuel Albert Mackenzie 2025-02-03
1944-August-30 KIA RAFVR Warrant Officer William Owen 2025-02-03
1944-August-30 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Andrew Stewart 2025-02-03

Lancaster LM480, Mk.I/III

s/n LM480

Avro

LM 480

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM481, Mk.I/III

s/n LM481

Avro

LM 481

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-July-25 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Carson John Foy 2023-10-22

Lancaster LM482, Mk.I/III

s/n LM482

Avro

LM 482

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM483, Mk.I/III

s/n LM483

Avro

LM 483

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM484, Mk.I/III

s/n LM484

Avro

LM 484

Merlin

Delivered to No. 625 Sqn (PG-M) 3 Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Givors, France 26/27 Jul 1944. 476 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05

Bombing Givors France 1944-07-26 to 1944-07-27

619 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Dunholme Lodge

619 Squadron (Ad Altoria), RAF Dunholme Lodge. Lancaster III aircraft LM 484 PG-M was shot down by a night fighter near Maisontiers, France during operations against targets in Givors, France with the loss of the entire crew

Warrant Officer Class 2 TF Galbraith (RCAF), FS JG Pearce (RCAF), Sergeant JH Gilliver (RAFVR), Sergeant E Graham (RAFVR), FS L Rothwell (RAAF), Sergeant RJ Thair (RAFVR) and Flying Officer RG Turvey (RAAF) were all killed in action

General [Royal Air Force Serial and Image database]...

General losses_outside_brittany

General Search for France-Crashes 39-45

1944-July-27 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Thomas Francis Galbraith 2022-11-05
1944-July-27 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Joseph Harry Gilliver 2022-11-05
1944-July-27 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Edward Graham 2022-11-05
1944-July-27 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Jack Gordon Pearce 2022-11-05
1944-July-27 KIA RAAF Sergeant Len Rothwell 2022-11-06
1944-July-27 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Reginald James Thair 2022-11-05
1944-July-27 KIA RAAF Flying Officer Ronald George Turvey 2022-11-06

Lancaster LM485, Mk.I/III

s/n LM485

Avro

LM 485

Merlin

Originally delivered to No. 15 Sqn (LS-U) then to No. 617 Sqn as KC-N. It was converted from a Mk. III to a Mk. I. It carried a Tallboy bomb on the raid on the Saumur Tunnel 8/9 Jun 1944, and the raid (operation Paravane) on the Tirpitz battleship from a base in the Soviet Union 11/12 Sep 1944, carrying 12 "Johnnie Walker" bombs. As KC-U it carried a Tallboy on the operation against the Tirpitz 12 Nov 1944. It survived the war and was SOC 4 Oct 1945.
last update: 2025-February-05

Bombing Brest France 1944-08-14 to 1944-08-14

617 (B) Sqn (RAF) Woodhall Spa

The aircraft, piloted by Flight Lieutenant HJ Pryor DFC, Left Woodhall Spa Kestrel Publications on a daylight raid to Brest, France Kestrel Publications with the objective being to sink the the blockship Gueydon. Shortly after releasing its Tallboy bomb, the bomb aimer, CP Pesme RCAF, was hit in the throat by a piece of shrapnel that then entered his head, killing him instantly. None of the other crew members were injured.

1944-August-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Cecil Percy Pesme 2022-08-30

Lancaster LM486, Mk.I/III

s/n LM486

Avro

LM 486

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM487, Mk.I/III

s/n LM487

Avro

LM 487

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM488, Mk.I/III

s/n LM488

Avro

LM 488

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM489, Mk.I/III

s/n LM489

Avro

LM 489

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM490, Mk.I/III

s/n LM490

Avro

LM 490

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM491, Mk.I/III

s/n LM491

Avro

LM 491

Merlin

Delivered to No. 622 Sqn (GI-C)13 Mar 1944. Later coded GI-E. Missing on operation to Massy-Palaiseau, France, 7/8 Jun 1944. 153 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald Mitchell Norris 2024-03-15
1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Raymond Michael Smith 2024-03-15

Lancaster LM492, Mk.I/III

s/n LM492

Avro

LM 492

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM493, Mk.I/III

s/n LM493

Avro

LM 493

Merlin

From No. 32 MU to No. 101 Sqn 26 Mar 1944. Equipped with ABC jamming equipment. Missing on operation to Friedrichshafen 28/29 Apr 1944. 50 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Rodney Sigsworth Campsall 2024-08-07
1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Gerhard Edgar Herbert Schultz 2024-08-07

Lancaster LM508, Mk.I/III

s/n LM508

Avro

LM 508

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM509, Mk.I/III

s/n LM509

Avro

LM 509

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM510, Mk.I/III

s/n LM510

Avro

LM 510

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM511, Mk.I/III

s/n LM511

Avro

LM 511

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM512, Mk.I/III

s/n LM512

Avro

LM 512

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer David Sam Tointon 2024-03-14

Lancaster LM513, Mk.I/III

s/n LM513

Avro

LM 513

Merlin

With No. 625 Sqn. Missing from operation to Duisburg 21/22 Jun 1944
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-May-22 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Arthur William Brickenden 2023-10-24
1944-May-22 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Gilbert Francis Joseph McElroy 2024-12-01
1944-May-22 PoW RCAF Flying Officer David James Weepers 2023-08-17

Lancaster LM514, Mk.I/III

s/n LM514

Avro

LM 514

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM515, Mk.I/III

s/n LM515

Avro

LM 515

Merlin

Delivered to No. 625 Sqn Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Mailly-le-Camp 3/4 May 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-May-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Daniel Moriarty 2024-03-15

Lancaster LM516, Mk.I/III

s/n LM516

Avro

LM 516

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM517, Mk.I/III

s/n LM517

Avro

LM 517

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM518, Mk.I/III

s/n LM518

Avro

LM 518

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM519, Mk.I/III

s/n LM519

Avro

LM 519

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-May-23 KIA RCAF Sergeant George Gow 2022-01-29

Lancaster LM520, Mk.I/III

s/n LM520

Avro

LM 520

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-May-10 KIA RAF Sergeant Henry Charles Dixey 2024-10-21

Lancaster LM521, Mk.I/III

s/n LM521

Avro

LM 521

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM522, Mk.I/III

s/n LM522

Avro

LM 522

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM523, Mk.I/III

s/n LM523

Avro

LM 523

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM524, Mk.I/III

s/n LM524

Avro

LM 524

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM525, Mk.I/III

s/n LM525

Avro

LM 525

Merlin

Delivered to No. 460 Sqn 14 Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Dusseldorf 22/23 Apr 1944. 6 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05

Bombing Dusseldorf Germany 1944-04-23 to 1944-04-23

460 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft LM 525 was delivered to 460 Squadron 14 April 1944. Aircraft was on a night operation mission to Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen, when it was shot down by a night fighter pilot. RAAF Flt. Sgt. R. Allen (pilot) was killed. Taken Prisoners of War were: RCAF Sgt. J.S. Stewart (air gunner); RAFVR Sgt's. J.G.H. Bond (air gunner), D. Lord (flight engineer), and S. Swinton (wireless operator / air gunner); RNZAF Flt. Sgt. K.P. Collett (bomb aimer); and RAAF Flying Officer W.M.F. Orr (navigator).
1944-April-23 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer John Samuel Stewart 2023-08-13

Lancaster LM526, Mk.I/III

s/n LM526

Avro

LM 526

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM527, Mk.I/III

s/n LM527

Avro

LM 527

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM528, Mk.I/III

s/n LM528

Avro

LM 528

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM529, Mk.I/III

s/n LM529

Avro

LM 529

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Bombing Karlsruhe Germany 1944-04-24 to 1944-04-25

166 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Kirmington

166 Squadron (Tenacity), RAF Kirmington. Lancaster BIII aircraft LM 529 AS-I was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Friedrich Thorl of Stab 1/NjG4. The Lancaster exploded and crashed near Wallers-Trelon (Nord) 20 km South-East of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, France during an operation against targets in Karlsruhe, Germany

The entire crew were lost

Warrant Officer John Duncan Fiddes (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Joseph Walter Edgar (RCAF), Sergeant Benjamin Cohen (RAFVR), Sergeant Harry Harbon (RAFVR), Sergeant Leonard Kirkham (RAFVR), Pilot Officer David Reid Tait (RAFVR) and Sergeant John Templeton (RAFVR) were all killed in action

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 2 16 March - 11 May by Theo Boiten, page 87

General Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

General Search for France -Crashes 39-45

General Wallers in Fagne, the village, History and heritage

1944-April-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Benjamin Cohen 2024-03-13
1944-April-25 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Walter Edgar 2025-01-13
1944-April-25 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer John Duncan Fiddes 2025-01-15
1944-April-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Harry Harbron 2025-01-15
1944-April-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Leonard Kirkham 2025-01-15
1944-April-25 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer David Reid Tait 2025-01-15
1944-April-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John Templeton 2025-01-15

Lancaster LM530, Mk.I/III

s/n LM530

Avro

LM 530

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM531, Mk.I/III

s/n LM531

Avro

LM 531

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM532, Mk.I/III

s/n LM532

Avro

LM 532

Merlin

Delivered to No. 576 Sqn (UL-A2) Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Orleans 4/5 Jul 1944. 189 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Frank Jakes Baxter 2025-01-01
1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Sergeant Earl Wesley Bookhout 2025-01-29
1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Sergeant Ralph Frithjaf Hillman 2025-01-01
1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Edward Jerome McCloskey 2025-01-01
1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Shoobridge 2025-01-01

Lancaster LM533, Mk.I/III

s/n LM533

Avro

LM 533

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM534, Mk.I/III

s/n LM534

Avro

LM 534

Merlin

To No. 115 Sqn May 1944. Transferred to No. 15 Sqn (LS-A). Missing on operation to Massy-Palaiseau 7/8 Jun 1944
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Charles David Woodley 2023-09-12

Lancaster LM535, Mk.I/III

s/n LM535

Avro

LM 535

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM536, Mk.I/III

s/n LM536

Avro

LM 536

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM537, Mk.I/III

s/n LM537

Avro

LM 537

Merlin

Delivered to No. 630 Sqn (LE-X) 25 Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Revigny, France 18 Jul 1944. 175 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-19 Evader RCAF Sergeant H P Ritchie 2021-05-23

Lancaster LM538, Mk.I/III

s/n LM538

Avro

LM 538

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM539, Mk.I/III

s/n LM539

Avro

LM 539

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM540, Mk.I/III

s/n LM540

Avro

LM 540

Merlin

Delivered to No. 207 Sqn 28 Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Brunswick 22/23 May 1944. 26 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-May-23 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert Neil Simpson 2021-07-28

Lancaster LM541, Mk.I/III

s/n LM541

Avro

LM 541

Merlin

Delivered to No. 49 Sqn 1 May 1944. Missing on operation to St. Leu d'Esserent, France 7/8 Jul 1944. 122 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer George Arthur Rae 2023-11-17

Lancaster LM542, Mk.I/III

s/n LM542

Avro

LM 542

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-May-23 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant John Charles Kennedy 2021-06-08

Lancaster LM543, Mk.I/III

s/n LM543

Avro

LM 543

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM544, Mk.I/III

s/n LM544

Avro

LM 544

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM545, Mk.I/III

s/n LM545

Avro

LM 545

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM546, Mk.I/III

s/n LM546

Avro

LM 546

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM547, Mk.I/III

s/n LM547

Avro

LM 547

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM548, Mk.I/III

s/n LM548

Avro

LM 548

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM549, Mk.I/III

s/n LM549

Avro

LM 549

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM550, Mk.I/III

s/n LM550

Avro

LM 550

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM551, Mk.I/III

s/n LM551

Avro

LM 551

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM552, Mk.I/III

s/n LM552

Avro

LM 552

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM569, Mk.I/III

s/n LM569

Avro

LM 569

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM570, Mk.I/III

s/n LM570

Avro

LM 570

Merlin

Delivered to No. 106 Sqn 13 May 1944. Missing on operation to Gelsenkirchen 21/22 Jun 1944. 90 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-22 KIA RCAF Sergeant Clarence Elgy Scott 2021-08-04

Lancaster LM571, Mk.I/III

s/n LM571

Avro

LM 571

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM572, Mk.I/III

s/n LM572

Avro

LM 572

Merlin

Delivered to No. 49 Sqn May 1944. Missing on operation to Pommerval 24/25 Jun 1944. 93 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-25 Evader RCAF Sergeant D Reid 2021-05-22

Lancaster LM573, Mk.I/III

s/n LM573

Avro

LM 573

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-June-22 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Angus John Black 2025-01-21

Lancaster LM574, Mk.I/III

s/n LM574

Avro

LM 574

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM575, Mk.I/III

s/n LM575

Avro

LM 575

Merlin

Delivered to No. 90 Sqn 15 May 1944. Transferred to No. 15 Sqn (LS-H) 5-Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Massy-Palaiseau, France 7/8 Jun 1944. 10 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-08 Evader RCAF Flying Officer G A Musgrove 2021-05-26

Lancaster LM576, Mk.I/III

s/n LM576

Avro

LM 576

Merlin

Delivered to No. 90 Sqn 15 May 1944. Transferred to No. 15 Sqn Jun 1944. Crashed and burnt while on a flying test near Mildenhall 21 Jun 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald Wayne McRae 2021-08-17

Lancaster LM577, Mk.I/III

s/n LM577

Avro

LM 577

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM578, Mk.I/III

s/n LM578

Avro

LM 578

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-June-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Charles David Boyce 2024-11-16

Lancaster LM579, Mk.I/III

s/n LM579

Avro

LM 579

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM580, Mk.I/III

s/n LM580

Avro

LM 580

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-June-22 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Thomas Alan Applegarth 2024-11-02

Lancaster LM581, Mk.I/III

s/n LM581

Avro

LM 581

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-June-13 KIA RAF Sergeant Ian Murray Ross 2021-03-06

Lancaster LM582, Mk.I/III

s/n LM582

Avro

LM 582

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM583, Mk.I/III

s/n LM583

Avro

LM 583

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM584, Mk.I/III

s/n LM584

Avro

LM 584

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM585, Mk.I/III

s/n LM585

Avro

LM 585

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM586, Mk.I/III

s/n LM586

Avro

LM 586

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-June-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Charles Howard Michael Beaudoin 2024-11-09

Lancaster LM587, Mk.I/III

s/n LM587

Avro

LM 587

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM588, Mk.I/III

s/n LM588

Avro

LM 588

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM589, Mk.I/III

s/n LM589

Avro

LM 589

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM590, Mk.I/III

s/n LM590

Avro

LM 590

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM591, Mk.I/III

s/n LM591

Avro

LM 591

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM592, Mk.I/III

s/n LM592

Avro

LM 592

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM593, Mk.I/III

s/n LM593

Avro

LM 593

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM594, Mk.I/III

s/n LM594

Avro

LM 594

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM595, Mk.I/III

s/n LM595

Avro

LM 595

Merlin

Delivered to No. 622 Sqn (GI-O) 10 Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Homburg 20/21 Jul 1944. 73 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Harry Pool 2021-09-30

Lancaster LM596, Mk.I/III

s/n LM596

Avro

LM 596

Merlin

Was with No. 101 Sqn, then transferred to No. 626 Sqn. Missing on operation to Duisburg 14/15 Oct 1944. 163 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Commodore Campbell 2023-12-13
1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Roland Marcel Joseph Champagne 2024-01-28
1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Albert Charland 2024-02-04
1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ross Cuthbert Clouston 2024-03-05
1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Frederick Palmer 2022-01-19

Lancaster LM597, Mk.I/III

s/n LM597

Avro

LM 597

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM598, Mk.I/III

s/n LM598

Avro

LM 598

Merlin

Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-M2) May 1944. Equipped with ABC radio jamming equipment. Missing on operation to Brunswick 12/13 Aug 1944. 119 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-13 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Waldo Peers 2021-08-16

Lancaster LM599, Mk.I/III

s/n LM599

Avro

LM 599

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-August-13 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Ronald Stanley Bennett 2023-11-16

Lancaster LM615, Mk.I/III

s/n LM615

Avro

LM 615

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM616, Mk.I/III

s/n LM616

Avro

LM 616

Merlin

With No. 115 Sqn. Crashed while descending through cloud, Great Offley, Herts, 18 Jul 1944
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-18 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William John Kennedy 2021-08-12
1944-July-18 KIA RCAF Sergeant Earl Douglas White 2021-07-09

Lancaster LM617, Mk.I/III

s/n LM617

Avro

LM 617

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM618, Mk.I/III

s/n LM618

Avro

LM 618

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM619, Mk.I/III

s/n LM619

Avro

LM 619

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM620, Mk.I/III

s/n LM620

Avro

LM 620

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM621, Mk.I/III

s/n LM621

Avro

LM 621

Merlin

Delivered to No. 100 Sqn 14 Jun 1944. Lost on operation to Vierzon, France 30 Jun/1 Jul 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05

Bombing Vierzon France 1944-06-30 to 1944-07-01

100 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Grimsby

100 Squadron RAF (Sarang tebuan jangan dijolok) RAF Grimsby. Lancaster III aircraft LM 621 HW-C was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Hptm Fritz Sothe of 4/NJG4 during an operation to bomb the rail yards at Vieron, France. The bomber crashed at Vouzon, Loir-et-Cher, France, some 29 miles north of the target

Mid-Upper Air Gunner, Sergeant John Eason Sharpley (RAFVR) was killed in action

Flight Sergeant Frederick Harold Fulsher (RCAF), Flying Officer William Kay (RAFVR) and Sergeant Harry Dale (RAFVR) were captured to become Prisoners of War. Fulsher and Kay were sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp and held for a time before the German Luftwaffe transferred them to Stalag Luft 3

Sergeant William Edward Struck (RCAF) and Flying Officer James Douglas Frink DFC (USAAF) and Sergeant Ernest Harrop (RAFVR) all evaded capture with the help of French locals and Resistance fighters

General Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

General 30 06/01 07 1944 100 Squadron Lancaster III LM621 Plt Off William...

General Search for France-Crashes 39-45

1944-July-01 PoW RAFVR Sergeant Harry Dale 2024-08-30
1944-July-01 Evader USAAF Flying Officer James Douglas Frink DFC 2024-08-25
1944-July-01 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Frederick Harold Fulsher 2024-10-24
1944-July-01 Evader RAFVR Sergeant Ernest Harrop 2024-08-25
1944-July-01 PoW RAFVR Flying Officer William Kay 2024-08-25
1944-July-01 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant John Eason Sharpley 2024-08-27
1944-July-01 Evader RCAF Sergeant William Edward Struck 2024-08-27

Lancaster LM622, Mk.I/III

s/n LM622

Avro

LM 622

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM623, Mk.I/III

s/n LM623

Avro

LM 623

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM624, Mk.I/III

s/n LM624

Avro

LM 624

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM625, Mk.I/III

s/n LM625

Avro

LM 625

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM626, Mk.I/III

s/n LM626

Avro

LM 626

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM627, Mk.I/III

s/n LM627

Avro

LM 627

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM628, Mk.I/III

s/n LM628

Avro

LM 628

Merlin

Delivered to No. 50 Sqn 26 Jun 1944. Missing on mission to Gravenhorst, 6/7 Nov 1944. 352 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Michael Arthur Cook 2024-04-02
1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flt. Sergeant Ralph Andrew Dowling 2024-10-28
1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer George Amos Dunkelman 2024-10-29
1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Frederick Arthur Horning 2021-08-10
1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Edward Rennie 2021-08-10
1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George Thompson Gilbert Terris 2021-07-20

Lancaster LM629, Mk.I/III

s/n LM629

Avro

LM 629

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM630, Mk.I/III

s/n LM630

Avro

LM 630

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM631, Mk.I/III

s/n LM631

Avro

LM 631

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-July-08 Evader RCAF Sergeant William Wallace Dineen 2024-10-20
1944-July-08 Evader RCAF Sergeant A J Halhead 2024-10-20

Lancaster LM632, Mk.I/III

s/n LM632

Avro

LM 632

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM633, Mk.I/III

s/n LM633

Avro

LM 633

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM634, Mk.I/III

s/n LM634

Avro

LM 634

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM635, Mk.I/III

s/n LM635

Avro

LM 635

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM636, Mk.I/III

s/n LM636

Avro

LM 636

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM637, Mk.I/III

s/n LM637

Avro

LM 637

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM638, Mk.I/III

s/n LM638

Avro

LM 638

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Bombing Culmont Chalindrey France 1944-07-12 to 1944-07-13

44 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Dunholme Lodge

378 Lancasters and 7 Mosquitoes of 1, 5 and 8 Groups attacked railway targets at Culmont, Revigny and Tours. Culmont and Tours were accurately bombed but cloud interfered with the all- 1 Group raid at Revigny and only half of the force· bombed. I0 Lancasters were lost on the Revigny raid and 2 on the Culmont raid.

source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt

Lancaster III aircraft LM 638 KM-P returning from an operation to bomb the railway junction at Culmont-Chalindrey, France, was involved in a mid-air collision with 576 Squadron RAF Lancaster ND 859 UL-L2, which was circling in cloud trying to find another railyard at Revigny-sur-Ornain, France. Both aircraft were on missions in support of the D-Day landings, an attempt stop German troop and equipment movement on the French rail system

Lancaster LM 638 crashed near Auberive, Haute-Marne and ND 859 crashed at Giey-sur-Aujon, Haute-Marne, France

WO HL Brooks MC (RCAF) Sergeant RG Royle (RAF) survived and were taken as Prisoners of War.Warrant Officer Brooks would later escape from a POW work party 1943-05-10 and join the Polish underground for the duration of the war

Sergeant KW Green (RAF) survived and initially Evaded until captured at the Swiss border 1944-08-17 and taken Prisoner of War

Flying Officer RS Arnold (RCAF), Sergeant J Bray (RCAF),Sergeant WA Lamb (RCAF) and Sergeant L Wharton (RAF) survived and Evaded capture. Arnold, Lamb and Wharton all joined the Resistance movement until liberated by Allied Forces

General [Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...

General Search for France-Crashes 39-45

General Memoirs 52: July 13 1944: two Lancasters crashed in the south-...

General List of RAF-evaders-1940-1945.pdf

1944-July-13 Evader RCAF Flying Officer Ralph Sherman Arnold 2022-11-19
1944-July-13 Evader RCAF Sergeant James Bray 2022-11-19
1944-July-13 Escaper RCAF Warrant Officer Herbert Lloyd Brooks MC 2022-11-19
1944-July-13 PoW RAF Sergeant Kenneth William Green 2025-03-02
1944-July-13 Evader RCAF Sergeant William Arthur Lamb 2022-11-21
1944-July-13 PoW RAF Sergeant Ronald Gordon Royle 2025-03-02
1944-July-13 Evader RAF Sergeant Leslie Wharton 2022-11-19

Lancaster LM639, Mk.I/III

s/n LM639

Avro

LM 639

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM640, Mk.I/III

s/n LM640

Avro

LM 640

Merlin

Delivered to No. 619 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Revigny 18/19 Jul 1944. 26 Operational hours
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Aubrey Ginders Britten 2024-11-18
1944-July-19 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Albert Garbutt 2025-03-03
1944-July-19 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Frederick Mara 2025-03-03
1944-July-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ewart Laverne Morrison 2025-03-03
1944-July-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harry James Wilson 2025-03-03

Lancaster LM641, Mk.I/III

s/n LM641

Avro

LM 641

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-August-08 Evader RCAF Flying Officer S R Byarnson 2024-10-20
1944-August-08 Evader RCAF Flying Officer A A Dilworth 2024-10-20
1944-August-08 Evader RCAF Flight Sergeant J W MacNicol 2024-10-20

Lancaster LM642, Mk.I/III

s/n LM642

Avro

LM 642

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM643, Mk.I/III

s/n LM643

Avro

LM 643

Merlin

Delivered to No. 619 Sqn (PG-E) 11 Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Donges, France 24/25 Jul 1944. 29 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05

Bombing 1944-07-25 to 1944-07-25

(B) Sqn (RAF) Dunholme Lodge
1944-July-25 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Joseph Kommes 2025-01-27
1944-July-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant George Henry Lucas 2025-01-27
1944-July-25 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant David Matthew Murphy 2025-01-29
1944-July-25 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer Ronald William Orbell 2025-01-29
1944-July-25 Killed RAFVR Sergeant James Rattray Scott 2025-01-29
1944-July-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Stephen Sinclair 2025-01-29
1944-July-25 KIA RAF Sergeant John Ronald Ward 2025-01-27

Lancaster LM644, Mk.I/III

s/n LM644

Avro

LM 644

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM645, Mk.I/III

s/n LM645

Avro

LM 645

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM646, Mk.I/III

s/n LM646

Avro

LM 646

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM647, Mk.I/III

s/n LM647

Avro

LM 647

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM648, Mk.I/III

s/n LM648

Avro

LM 648

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-November-11 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Chesley Reginald Grassie 2021-08-07

Lancaster LM649, Mk.I/III

s/n LM649

Avro

LM 649

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM650, Mk.I/III

s/n LM650

Avro

LM 650

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM651, Mk.I/III

s/n LM651

Avro

LM 651

Merlin

Delivered to No. 576 Sqn (UL-Z2) Jul 1944. On Sep 24 1944, the aircraft was hit by flak and one of the gunners, FS JD McGowan was mortally wounded and died 5 days later. The aircraft survived the war with No. 576 Sqn and was eventually SOC 15 May 1947.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-September-29 Died RCAF Flight Sergeant John Douglas McGowan 2021-08-17

Lancaster LM652, Mk.I/III

s/n LM652

Avro

LM 652

Merlin

Delivered to No. 166 Sqn 28 Jul 1944. Missing from Gardening sortie 27 Aug 1944. 89 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Royden Garfield Bradley 2024-11-16
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Gustaf Flegel 2025-02-18
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Frank Kenneth Morley 2025-02-18
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Richard Nathaniel Smith 2025-02-18

Lancaster LM653, Mk.I/III

s/n LM653

Avro

LM 653

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM654, Mk.I/III

s/n LM654

Avro

LM 654

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM655, Mk.I/III

s/n LM655

Avro

LM 655

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM656, Mk.I/III

s/n LM656

Avro

LM 656

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Daniel Gordon Danielson 2024-09-03
1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Terence De Vries 2024-10-08
1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Frederick Fraser 2024-09-03

Lancaster LM657, Mk.I/III

s/n LM657

Avro

LM 657

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM658, Mk.I/III

s/n LM658

Avro

LM 658

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-August-13 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Bruce Arnold David 2024-09-11

Lancaster LM671, Mk.I/III

s/n LM671

Avro

LM 671

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-December-19 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Loyd George Hahn 2024-11-27

Lancaster LM672, Mk.I/III

s/n LM672

Avro

LM 672

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM673, Mk.I/III

s/n LM673

Avro

LM 673

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM674, Mk.I/III

s/n LM674

Avro

LM 674

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM675, Mk.I/III

s/n LM675

Avro

LM 675

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM676, Mk.I/III

s/n LM676

Avro

LM 676

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM677, Mk.I/III

s/n LM677

Avro

LM 677

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM678, Mk.I/III

s/n LM678

Avro

LM 678

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM679, Mk.I/III

s/n LM679

Avro

LM 679

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM680, Mk.I/III

s/n LM680

Avro

LM 680

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM681, Mk.I/III

s/n LM681

Avro

LM 681

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM682, Mk.I/III

s/n LM682

Avro

LM 682

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM683, Mk.I/III

s/n LM683

Avro

LM 683

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM684, Mk.I/III

s/n LM684

Avro

LM 684

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM685, Mk.I/III

s/n LM685

Avro

LM 685

Merlin

Delivered to No. 514 Sqn Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Dortmund 3/4 Feb 1945.
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-February-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Alan Quilliam Downward 2024-10-28
1945-February-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Warren James Keating Fisher 2021-08-06
1945-February-03 KIA RCAF Sergeant Albert Richard McWhinney 2021-08-17
1945-February-03 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Alfred Hector Morrison 2021-08-16
1945-February-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donald Edward Stephens 2021-10-02

Lancaster LM686, Mk.I/III

s/n LM686

Avro

LM 686

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM687, Mk.I/III

s/n LM687

Avro

LM 687

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1945-January-02 KIA RCAF Sergeant Ned Baker 2024-12-04

Lancaster LM688, Mk.I/III

s/n LM688

Avro

LM 688

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM689, Mk.I/III

s/n LM689

Avro

LM 689

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10
1944-October-22 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Earl William Bock 2024-11-13

Lancaster LM690, Mk.I/III

s/n LM690

Avro

LM 690

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM691, Mk.I/III

s/n LM691

Avro

LM 691

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM692, Mk.I/III

s/n LM692

Avro

LM 692

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM693, Mk.I/III

s/n LM693

Avro

LM 693

Merlin

Delivered to No. 115 Sqn (KO-T) 14 Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Moerdijk, 16/17 Sep 1944. 62 operational hours.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-September-17 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Peter William Bickford 2024-10-05
1944-September-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Dawson 2024-10-05
1944-September-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald George Flood 2024-10-05
1944-September-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Arnold Ney Johnston 2024-10-05
1944-September-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Wilfred George Scanlan 2024-10-05

Lancaster LM694, Mk.I/III

s/n LM694

Avro

LM 694

Merlin

Delivered to No. 166 Sqn (AS-M2) 22 Aug 1943. Missing on Gardening operation to the Baltic 26/27 Aug 1943.
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Ernest Fitzgerald DFM 2023-08-28
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Balfour Russell 2023-08-28
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer 2023-08-28

Lancaster LM695, Mk.I/III

s/n LM695

Avro

LM 695

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM696, Mk.I/III

s/n LM696

Avro

LM 696

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM697, Mk.I/III

s/n LM697

Avro

LM 697

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM713, Mk.I/III

s/n LM713

Avro

LM 713

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM714, Mk.I/III

s/n LM714

Avro

LM 714

Merlin

Delivered to No. 12 Sqn (PH-L) 28 Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Merseburg 14/15 Jan 1945.
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-January-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Karl Gerhard Gutensohn 2021-08-09
1945-January-14 PoW RCAF Flying Officer J B Murray 2023-09-19
1945-January-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Edward Werner Rech 2021-08-10

Lancaster LM715, Mk.I/III

s/n LM715

Avro

LM 715

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM716, Mk.I/III

s/n LM716

Avro

LM 716

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM717, Mk.I/III

s/n LM717

Avro

LM 717

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM718, Mk.I/III

s/n LM718

Avro

LM 718

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM719, Mk.I/III

s/n LM719

Avro

LM 719

Merlin

First at No. 514 Sqn, then to 1653 Conversion Unit. Crashed in a snowstorm 28 April 1945
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Verle Edmond Cline 2024-03-05
1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Norman William Guy 2021-08-09
1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Richard Knut Ourom 2021-08-18
1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer John Donald Travis 2021-07-15
1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant James Roy Williams 2021-07-08
1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Roger Wilson 2021-07-07

Lancaster LM720, Mk.I/III

s/n LM720

Avro

LM 720

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM721, Mk.I/III

s/n LM721

Avro

LM 721

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM722, Mk.I/III

s/n LM722

Avro

LM 722

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM723, Mk.I/III

s/n LM723

Avro

LM 723

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM724, Mk.I/III

s/n LM724

Avro

LM 724

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM725, Mk.I/III

s/n LM725

Avro

LM 725

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM726, Mk.I/III

s/n LM726

Avro

LM 726

Merlin

Delivered to No. 626 Sqn 9 Sep 1944. Missing on operation to Dortmund 20/21 Feb 1945.
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-February-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Albert John Beck 2024-11-10
1945-February-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Wilfred Nicholson Patterson 2025-01-05

Lancaster LM727, Mk.I/III

s/n LM727

Avro

LM 727

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM728, Mk.I/III

s/n LM728

Avro

LM 728

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM729, Mk.I/III

s/n LM729

Avro

LM 729

Merlin

Delivered to No. 61 Sqn 12 Sep 1944. Missing on operation to Munich 17/18 Dec 1944. [Robertson gives last op on 19th Dec to Gdynia, but this is not borne out by reference to the rafcommands website]
last update: 2025-February-07

Bombing Munich Germany 1944-12-17 to 1944-12-17

61 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Skellingthorpe

61 Squadron RAF (Per Puram Tunantes), RAF Skellingthorpe. Lancaster III aircraft LM 729 QR-V was shot down by flak thirty five-miles south-east of the targets in Munich, Germany near Degendorf, Germany with only the rear air-gunner surviving the aircraft loss

Flying Officer Percy Barlow (RCAF), Flying Officer Edward Roy Newland (RCAF), Warrant Officer Hilton Alfred Hales (RAAF), Sergeant Ronald William Bennett (RAFVR), Sergeant David Thomson Muir (RAFVR) and Sergeant Herbert Alfred Tuck (RAFVR) were all killed in action

Although claimed as shot down by flak, Rear Gunner Chester Samuel Joce (RAFVR) later reported that a photo-flash bomb, used by aircrew to illuminate the target area in order to photograph bomb damage exploded inside the fuselage after the bomb load was released, killing most of the crew. The tail plane and rear turret separated from the fuselage and Joce survived to fall free and became a Prisoner of War

Nachtjagd Combat Archrive, 1944 Part 5 16 October - 31 December by Theo Boiten, page 64

General Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

1944-December-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Percy Barlow 2025-02-06
1944-December-17 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Ronald William Bennett 2025-02-05
1944-December-17 KIA RAAF Warrant Officer Hilton Alfred Hales 2025-02-06
1944-December-17 PoW RAFVR Sergeant Chester Samuel Joce 2025-02-05
1944-December-17 KIA RAFVR Sergeant David Thomson Muir 2025-02-06
1944-December-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Edward Roy Newland 2025-02-05
1944-December-17 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Herbert Alfred Tuck 2025-02-06

Lancaster LM730, Mk.I/III

s/n LM730

Avro

LM 730

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM731, Mk.I/III

s/n LM731

Avro

LM 731

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM732, Mk.I/III

s/n LM732

Avro

LM 732

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM733, Mk.I/III

s/n LM733

Avro

LM 733

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM734, Mk.I/III

s/n LM734

Avro

LM 734

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM735, Mk.I/III

s/n LM735

Avro

LM 735

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM736, Mk.I/III

s/n LM736

Avro

LM 736

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM737, Mk.I/III

s/n LM737

Avro

LM 737

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM738, Mk.I/III

s/n LM738

Avro

LM 738

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM739, Mk.I/III

s/n LM739

Avro

LM 739

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM740, Mk.I/III

s/n LM740

Avro

LM 740

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM741, Mk.I/III

s/n LM741

Avro

LM 741

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM742, Mk.I/III

s/n LM742

Avro

LM 742

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM743, Mk.I/III

s/n LM743

Avro

LM 743

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM744, Mk.I/III

s/n LM744

Avro

LM 744

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM745, Mk.I/III

s/n LM745

Avro

LM 745

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM746, Mk.I/III

s/n LM746

Avro

LM 746

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM747, Mk.I/III

s/n LM747

Avro

LM 747

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM748, Mk.I/III

s/n LM748

Avro

LM 748

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM749, Mk.I/III

s/n LM749

Avro

LM 749

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM750, Mk.I/III

s/n LM750

Avro

LM 750

Merlin

Delivered to No. 166 Sqn Sep 1944. Transferred to No. 153 Sqn (PA-G) Oct 1944. Missing from Gardening sortie 3/4 Mar 1945
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Leo Joseph Robert Gregoire DFC 2021-11-07
1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Kenneth Lloyd Douglas McCoy 2021-08-17
1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Ernest Sabine 2021-08-04
1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Marvin Max Sandomirsky 2021-08-04
1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Waldemar Webber 2021-07-10

Lancaster LM751, Mk.I/III

s/n LM751

Avro

LM 751

Merlin

Delivered to No. 619 Sqn (PG-X) Sep 1944. Missing on operation to Heilbronn 4/5 Dec 1944.
last update: 2025-February-05

Bombing Heilbronn Germany 1944-12-04 to 1944-12-04

(B) Sqn (RAF) Strubby

Took off from Strubby at 16:42 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: PG-X Bomber Command) on an operation to Heilbronn Germany

Shot down by a night fighter itand crashed at Baiersbronn about 7km NW of Freudenstadt.

Killed:Flying Officer Robert Harry Schaefer RCAF J/35883 pilot KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4.H.33.Flying Officer Phillip Peter Awad RCAF J/39979 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4.H.34-35.Sergeant John Lonsdale Swanson RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4.H.31. Flying Officer Frederick Leonard Meredith RCAF J/38814 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery crave 4.H.34-35,Sergeant Leslie George Weir RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4.H.23.

Unknown:Sergeant J Ross Keilty RCAF R/number POW camp not listed.Sergeant John E Nicholaiff RCAF R/number injured in crash POW camp not listed.

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1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Philip Peter Awad 2024-11-04
1944-December-04 PoW RCAF Sergeant J Ross Keilty 2024-10-07
1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Frederick Leonard Meredith 2024-10-07
1944-December-04 PoW RCAF Sergeant J E Nicholaiff 2024-10-07
1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Harry Schaefer 2024-10-07
1944-December-04 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John Lonsdale Swanson 2024-10-07
1944-December-04 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Leslie George Weir 2024-10-07

Lancaster LM752, Mk.I/III

s/n LM752

Avro

LM 752

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM753, Mk.I/III

s/n LM753

Avro

LM 753

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM754, Mk.I/III

s/n LM754

Avro

LM 754

Merlin


last update: 2025-March-10

Lancaster LM755, Mk.I/III

s/n LM755

Avro

LM 755

Merlin

Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-N) Oct 1944. Missing from daylight operation to Dortmund 29-Nov 1944 (Mason). (Robertson gives date as 29 Oct, presumably a typo).
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-November-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Nelson Robert Perry 2021-08-16
1944-November-29 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Richard Gerrard Winchester 2023-08-19

Lancaster LM756, Mk.I/III

s/n LM756

Avro

LM 756

Merlin

Delivered to No. 227 Squadron Oct 1944, then to No. 619 Sqn (PG-F) Oct/Nov 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Berchtesgaten 25 Apr 1945. This is possibly the last Lancaster lost to enemy action in WWII
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-April-25 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Wilfred Tarquinas De Marco 2024-10-08
1945-April-25 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Hubert Johnston 2024-10-08
1945-April-25 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Jackie W Speers 2024-10-08
1945-April-25 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer Gordon Victor Walker 2024-10-08