Lancaster (Total: 7,377, Canadian: 719, Group 691)
Avro Lancaster
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
Lancaster Bomber
WikipediaLancaster Mk.I/III serial PB112
s/n PB112
K
Avro
PB 112
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn;15 Sqn
Delivered to No. No. 15 Sqn (LS-K) then transferred to No. 195 Sqn (JE-H). Missing from daylight operation to Witten, Germany 12 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-December-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George Richard Barry 2024-11-09
1944-December-12 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Douglas Cyril Cullum 2024-11-13 1944-December-12 PoW RCAF Sergeant Joseph Aaron Friedman 2024-11-13 1944-December-12 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Mark Goldwater 2024-11-13 1944-December-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Tait Roth 2024-11-13 1944-December-12 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer Norman Richard Waring 2024-11-13
1944-December-12 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Bernard White 2024-11-13 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB113
s/n PB113
Avro
PB 113
Merlin
Known Units:
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*J. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB114
s/n PB114
Avro
PB 114
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB115
s/n PB115
W
Avro
PB 115
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB116
s/n PB116
Avro
PB 116
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB117
s/n PB117
D
Avro
PB 117
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn
Delivered to No. 460 Sqn (AR-T). Transferred to No. 100 Sqn (HD-W) Dec 1944. Missing on operation to Nuremburg 16/17 Mar 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB118
s/n PB118
Avro
PB 118
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB119
s/n PB119
Avro
PB 119
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB120
s/n PB120
P
Avro
PB 120
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
Delivered to No. 582 Sqn (6O-P). Lost on daylight mission to Cologne 23 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-December-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Kenneth Harry Austin 2024-11-04 1944-December-23 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant J MacLennan 2023-09-07 1944-December-23 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant R E Pearce 2023-09-23
1944-December-23 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Arndt Walther Reif 2021-08-10 1944-December-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Peter Uzelman 2021-10-02 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB121
s/n PB121
Avro
PB 121
Merlin
Known Units: ;630
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB122
s/n PB122
Avro
PB 122
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB123
s/n PB123
O
Avro
PB 123
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB124
s/n PB124
H
Avro
PB 124
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB125
s/n PB125
Avro
PB 125
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB126
s/n PB126
E
Avro
PB 126
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB127
s/n PB127
Avro
PB 127
Merlin
Known Units: ;115
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB128
s/n PB128
Avro
PB 128
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB129
s/n PB129
A
Avro
PB 129
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*A. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Failed to return from daylight operation against coastal guns at Cap Griz Nez area on 26 September 1944. Received a direct hit from flak while approaching the target, port inner engine caught fire and airecraft entered steep dive. Only 3 crew bailed out, rest killed when aircraft struck ground and exploded.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Cap Gris-Nez France 1944-09-26 to 1944-09-26
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*A. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Failed to return from daylight operation against coastal guns at Cap Griz Nez area on 26 September 1944. Received a direct hit from flak while approaching the target, port inner engine caught fire and aircraft entered steep dive. Only 3 crew bailed out
,Pilot Officer Frederick John Alec FREY (J/85493) Air Gunner; Flight Lieutenant Wilfred GODDARD (145387) Navigator; Flying Officer Charles Edwin LAISHLEY (158131) Wireless Op; Wing Commander Charles William PALMER (J/15818) Pilot; Flying Officer Wilfred George F. PEACOCK (J/18009) Air Bomber; killed when aircraft struck ground and exploded. Crashed in Allied held territory two of the survivors escaping serious injury while Canadian, Flight Lieutenant Anderson a veteran Squadron member whose DFM had been Gazetted 11 June 1943 was taken Prisoner of War on November 23, 1942, and required Hospital treatment
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB130
s/n PB130
Avro
PB 130
Merlin
Known Units: ;115
Delivered to No. 115 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing from daylight operation to Amaye-sur-Seulles (battle area) 30 Jul 1944. 63 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-30 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert William Burdell Carey 2024-01-04 1944-July-30 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Morrow Conly 2024-03-25 1944-July-30 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer George John Imrie 2023-09-12 1944-July-30 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Jack Maurice Lonie 2023-09-12 1944-July-30 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Clifford Arnold Thompson 2023-09-12 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB131
s/n PB131
Avro
PB 131
Merlin
Known Units: ;115
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB132
s/n PB132
T
Avro
PB 132
Merlin
Known Units: 75 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB133
s/n PB133
Avro
PB 133
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB134
s/n PB134
R
Avro
PB 134
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB135
s/n PB135
C
Avro
PB 135
Merlin
Known Units: ASWDU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB136
s/n PB136
Avro
PB 136
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB137
s/n PB137
U
Avro
PB 137
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB138
s/n PB138
Avro
PB 138
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB139
s/n PB139
B
Avro
PB 139
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn;15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB140
s/n PB140
H
Avro
PB 140
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB141
s/n PB141
F
Avro
PB 141
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB142
s/n PB142
A
Avro
PB 142
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB143
s/n PB143
B
Avro
PB 143
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB144
s/n PB144
Avro
PB 144
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB145
s/n PB145
N
Avro
PB 145
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn;106 Sqn;106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB146
s/n PB146
A
Avro
PB 146
Merlin
Known Units: 189 Sqn;1659 HCU;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB147
s/n PB147
C
Avro
PB 147
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn (PM-C) 12 Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944. 132 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB148
s/n PB148
C
Avro
PB 148
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB149
s/n PB149
D
Avro
PB 149
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB150
s/n PB150
V
Avro
PB 150
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn;625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB151
s/n PB151
Avro
PB 151
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB152
s/n PB152
Avro
PB 152
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB153
s/n PB153
Avro
PB 153
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB154
s/n PB154
Y
Avro
PB 154
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB155
s/n PB155
K
Avro
PB 155
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB156
s/n PB156
R
Avro
PB 156
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB157
s/n PB157
B
Avro
PB 157
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB158
s/n PB158
G
Avro
PB 158
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB171
s/n PB171
Avro
PB 171
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB172
s/n PB172
Avro
PB 172
Merlin
Known Units: 100;106
Delivered to No. 100 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944. 102 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Steve Lawrence Krawchuk 2024-06-04 1944-July-29 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer William Archibald MacDonald 2023-10-10 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Conrad William Martens 2024-06-17 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Hewitt Harold Robinson Reid 2024-06-22 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Wilfred James Smith 2024-06-28 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB173
s/n PB173
C
Avro
PB 173
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB174
s/n PB174
P
Avro
PB 174
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*P. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Failed to return from operation over Bottrop on 20/21 July 1944. From Henk Welting in Holland: "Lancaster PB174 was hit (direct in the bombbay ??) by Bf 110-G4, Serial G9+MD, Werke Nr. 720410 of Stab III./NJG1, flown by Hptm Martin Drewis, 01.15 hrs. The Lancaster exploded and crashed on land of Mr Koopman, Weustboerweg at Reutem. Crew were buried at Tubbergen 24-7-1944. Debris of the exploding Lancaster hit the attacking Bf 110 and the night fighter also crashed a minute or so later at the Loomsweg at Reutum, community Tubbergen."last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Bottrop Germany 1944-07-20 to 1944-07-21
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Normandy
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*P. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Failed to return from operation over Bottrop on 20/21 July 1944. From Henk Welting in Holland: "Lancaster PB174 was hit (direct in the bomb bay ??) by Bf 110-G4, Serial G9+MD, Werke Nr. 720410 of Stab III./NJG1, flown by Hptm Martin Drewis, 01.15 hrs. The Lancaster exploded and crashed on land of Mr Koopman, Weustboerweg at Reutem. Crew were buried at Tubbergen 24-7-1944. Debris of the exploding Lancaster hit the attacking Bf 110 and the night fighter also crashed a minute or so later at the Loomsweg at Reutum, community Tubbergen."
Pilot Officer Alfred Joseph BRITTS (J/88665) Wireless Op; Sergeant Thomas DAVENPORT 1354430) Air Gunner; Pilot Officer Vernon Fairbank DODDS (J/89743) Air Bomber; Sergeant Patrick Neil GILBERT (1582850) Flight Engi; Flying Officer Joseph John Raymond JOHNSON (J/24921) Navigator; Flying Officer Anthony Gerard McCARTHY (169703) Air Bomber; Flight Lieutenant James Denholm VIRTUE (J/7905) Pilot; All killed
1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Alfred Joseph Britts 2025-03-03 1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Vernon Fairbanks Dodds 2025-03-03 1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Joseph John Raymond Johnson 2025-03-03 1944-July-21 Evader RCAF Flight Sergeant Michael Stanley Stoyko 2025-03-03 1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant James Denholm Virtue 2024-10-23 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB175
s/n PB175
Avro
PB 175
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB176
s/n PB176
Avro
PB 176
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB177
s/n PB177
L
Avro
PB 177
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
Delivered to No. 32 MU then to No. 156 Sqn (GT-L) Jun 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Calais, France 24 Sep 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB178
s/n PB178
Avro
PB 178
Merlin
Known Units: ;514
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB179
s/n PB179
Z
Avro
PB 179
Merlin
Known Units: 6 OTU;236 OCU;7 Sqn;582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB180
s/n PB180
F
Avro
PB 180
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB181
s/n PB181
Avro
PB 181
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB182
s/n PB182
D
Avro
PB 182
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB183
s/n PB183
E
Avro
PB 183
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn;405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*B, "LQ*C" and "LQ*E". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Dresden Germany 1945-02-13 to 1945-02-14
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster aircraft PB 183 failed to return from a night raid against Dresden, Germany. F/Os D.B. Olson, J.A. Kaucharik, R.A. French, F.M. Gordon, E.W. Connolly, and F/Ls J. Armitt and J.K.Knights DFC were killed. One Canadian, Flight Lieutenant Frederick was taken Prisoner of War. This was an eight-man crew, an extra bomb aimer was on board to gain experience. The Dresden target had been suggested by the Russians and Bomber Command agreed to set up an operation. There was no flak or enemy fighter aircraft anywhere near Dresden and many veteran fliers who knew what to expect knew something was wrong. Dresden had almost escaped all bombing raids up to this point in the war, it was a,large city of civilians plus thousands of refugees escaping the Russian advance. After the raid Bomber Command realized they had been suckered by the Russians into murdering over 100,00 innocent civilians and refugees.
1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant John Armitt 2024-11-02 1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Earl Wellington Connolly 2024-05-17 1945-February-14 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Merle Omer Frederick 2022-08-30 1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Raymond Alfred French 2024-05-26 1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Fred Merrill Gordon 2024-05-26 1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Joseph Anthony Kaucharik 2024-06-01 1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant John Kingsley Knights DFC 2022-08-30 1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donald Brant Olson 2022-08-30 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB184
s/n PB184
N
Avro
PB 184
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB185
s/n PB185
F
Avro
PB 185
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB186
s/n PB186
G
Avro
PB 186
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn;156 Sqn
With No. 156 Sqn (GT-A and GT-G). Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jan 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB187
s/n PB187
E
Avro
PB 187
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB188
s/n PB188
Avro
PB 188
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB189
s/n PB189
A
Avro
PB 189
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB190
s/n PB190
J
Avro
PB 190
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB191
s/n PB191
H
Avro
PB 191
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB192
s/n PB192
F
Avro
PB 192
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB193
s/n PB193
Avro
PB 193
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB194
s/n PB194
Avro
PB 194
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB195
s/n PB195
Avro
PB 195
Merlin
Known Units: ;49
Delivered from No. 32 MU to No. 49 Sqn Jun 1944. Lost on operation to Creil 4/5 Jul 1944. 9 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB196
s/n PB196
D
Avro
PB 196
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB197
s/n PB197
Avro
PB 197
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB198
s/n PB198
Avro
PB 198
Merlin
Known Units: 90
Delivered to No. 90 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Edward Laverne Eitel 2024-03-12 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Myron Fetchison 2024-03-12 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Hugh Donald Hilts 2024-03-12 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Joseph Wilfrid Jean Paul Huot 2024-03-12 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Donald Morton 2024-03-12 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB199
s/n PB199
Avro
PB 199
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB200
s/n PB200
A
Avro
PB 200
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn;35 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB201
s/n PB201
Avro
PB 201
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB202
s/n PB202
Avro
PB 202
Merlin
Known Units: ;582
From No. 32 MU to No. 582 Sqn (6O-E) Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Stettin 29/30 Aug 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB203
s/n PB203
Avro
PB 203
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
Delivered to No. 106 Sqn from No. 32 MU Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Darmstadt 11/12 Sep 1944. 207 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-September-12 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant John Alfred Kiteley 2021-03-14 1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Paul Raymond Murray Mavaut DFC 2021-08-16 1944-September-12 PoW RCAF Flying Officer R L Montador 2023-09-17 1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Lawrence Ross Van Horne 2022-01-14 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB204
s/n PB204
E
Avro
PB 204
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB205
s/n PB205
Avro
PB 205
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB206
s/n PB206
Q
Avro
PB 206
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
Delivered to No. 44 Sqn (KM-Q) Jun 1944. Missing on Gardening sortie 15/16 Jun 1944. 43 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB207
s/n PB207
Avro
PB 207
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB208
s/n PB208
S
Avro
PB 208
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB209
s/n PB209
E
Avro
PB 209
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB210
s/n PB210
V
Avro
PB 210
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
Delivered to No. 619 Sqn (PG-V) Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Karlsruhe 2/3 Feb 1945.[Mason gives Sqn code as PG-U]
last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB211
s/n PB211
H
Avro
PB 211
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB212
s/n PB212
S
Avro
PB 212
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB213
s/n PB213
Avro
PB 213
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB226
s/n PB226
G
Avro
PB 226
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB227
s/n PB227
Avro
PB 227
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB228
s/n PB228
Avro
PB 228
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB229
s/n PB229
H
Avro
PB 229
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*H and "LQ*X". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Failed to return from operation over Munich on 8 January 1945, may have collided over target with Lancaster PB173 of 635 Squadron, RAF.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Munich Germany 1945-01-07 to 1945-01-07
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*X". Failed to return from operation over Munich on 8 January 1945, Collided in the air with a 635 Sqdn Lancaster (PB173) crashing at Unterpfallenhofen 19 km SSE from the centre of Nuremburg
Flying Officer James ALLAN (J/36317); Flight Sergeant Douglas Harold BROWN (R/214565) Air Gunner; Flight Sergeant Robert Andrew QUINN (R/166920) Flight Engi; Pilot Officer Norman Lester William SCOTT (J/92782); Flight Lieutenant Leslie Garwood SPARLING (J/28709) Pilot; Flying Officer Lawrence William SPLATT (J/35536); Pilot Officer Daniel VERI (J/95485) Air Gunner. All KiIlled
1945-January-08 Failed to Return failed to return from operation over Munich 2019-08-20
1945-January-07 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Allan 2024-11-02 1945-January-07 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Douglas Harold Brown 2025-03-09 1945-January-07 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert Andrew Quinn 2025-03-09 1945-January-07 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Lester William Scott 2025-03-09 1945-January-07 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Leslie Garwood Sparling 2025-03-09 1945-January-07 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Lawrence William Splatt 2025-03-09 1945-January-07 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Daniel Veri 2025-03-09 
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB230
s/n PB230
Avro
PB 230
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB231
s/n PB231
Avro
PB 231
Merlin
Known Units: ;49
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Revigny 18/19 Jul 1944. 44 flying hourslast update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB232
s/n PB232
N
Avro
PB 232
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB233
s/n PB233
O
Avro
PB 233
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*O. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. 3 crew bailedout over occupied Europe on 26 august 1944, after pilot gave bail outorder. Aircraft returned to the UK, one POW and 2 killed,last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Russelsheim Germany 1944-08-25 to 1944-08-26
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus) Pathfinder Force, RAF Gransden Lodge. Lancaster BIII aircraft PB 233 LQ-O was returning from a raid against targets in Russelheim, Germany, when it was attacked by a night fighter that shot up the rear fuselage, the tail plane, and the starboard mainplane with cannon fire. The Lancaster returned to the UK safely but three of the crew had bailed out over enemy territory contrary to the captain's instructions. Flight Lieutenant HD Brown (RCAF) and FS KA Abbs (RAF) survived to be taken as Prisoners of War, but Pilot Officer RB Nairn (RCAF) was missing, presumed killed in action
Pilot Officer Nairn has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
Flight Lieutenant WJL Weiker (RCAF), Flying Officer JS McDowell DFC (RCAF),Warrant Officer MJ Martin (RCAF) and Sergeant EJ New (RAF) survived and returned to RAF Gransden Lodge. The only other casualty wasWarrant Officer Martin with an ankle injury
1944-August-26 PoW RAF Flight Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Abbs 2024-11-01 1944-August-26 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Donald Henry Brown 2024-11-21 1944-August-26 Survived RCAF Pilot Officer Maurice James Martin 2025-03-09 1944-August-26 Survived RCAF Flying Officer James Stewart McDowell DFC 2025-03-09 1944-August-26 Survived RAF Pilot Officer Edwin James New 2025-03-09 1944-August-26 Survived RCAF Flight Lieutenant William Jacob Louis Weicker DFC & Bar 2022-06-08 1944-August-26 Survived RCAF Flight Lieutenant William James Louis Weiker 2022-11-15 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB234
s/n PB234
Avro
PB 234
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB235
s/n PB235
C
Avro
PB 235
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB236
s/n PB236
F
Avro
PB 236
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB237
s/n PB237
M
Avro
PB 237
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB238
s/n PB238
K
Avro
PB 238
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB239
s/n PB239
D
Avro
PB 239
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*D. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Stettin Germany 1944-08-16 to 1944-08-17
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, Crashed in the sea off the W coast of Denmark. following bombing mission to Kiel
Pilot Officer Forast Deloise BILLINGSLEY (J/89270) Wireless Op; Flight Lieutenant John Samuel BRUCE (86600); Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Boyd CALHOUN (J/23966) Bomb Aimer; Pilot Officer Joseph William CARTER (J/88790); Flying Officer Charles Harold FISHER (J/19844) Pilot; Sergeant Eric Noel JOLLY (1871640) Flight Engi; Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Donovan KEMP (J/12962) Air Bomber; Flying Officer Kenneth Albert NORDHEIMER (J/26606) Air Gunner. All killed.
1944-August-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Forast Deloise Billingsley 2024-07-10 1944-August-17 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Boyd Calhoun DFC 2024-07-10 1944-August-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph William Carter 2024-07-10 1944-August-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Charles Harold Fisher DFC 2024-07-10 1944-August-17 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Donovan Kemp 2024-07-10 1944-August-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Kenneth Albert Nordheimer 2024-07-10 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB240
s/n PB240
Avro
PB 240
Merlin
Known Units: 156;83
Appears to have originally been with No. 156 Sqn, then moved to No. 83 Sqn via No. 32 MU in Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Brunswick 12/13 Aug 1944. 41 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB241
s/n PB241
X
Avro
PB 241
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
Delivered to No. 7 Sqn (MG-X) Jul 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Scholven-Buer 6 Oct 1944. 159 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-October-06 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Raymond Gerard Beaune 2024-06-10
1944-October-06 KIA RAAF Flight Sergeant Archibald Cattanach Davidson 2024-09-04 1944-October-06 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Frederick Gordon Etheridge 2024-06-10 1944-October-06 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Walter Alexander MacWilliam 2024-09-04 1944-October-06 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Ivy Roy Milligan DFC 2024-06-10 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB242
s/n PB242
Avro
PB 242
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB243
s/n PB243
D
Avro
PB 243
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB244
s/n PB244
N
Avro
PB 244
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
Delivered to No. 630 Sqn from No. 32 MU Jul 1944. Missing from a daylight operation to L'Isle Adam 18 Aug 1944. 170 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-18 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George Cameron 2024-06-11 1944-August-18 Evader RCAF Flying Officer W F Jones 2024-06-12 1944-August-18 Evader RCAF Flying Officer Arthur Frederick Kemp 2024-06-12 1944-August-18 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Joseph Shearstone 2024-06-12 1944-August-18 Evader RCAF Sergeant J W Stirling 2024-06-12 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB245
s/n PB245
L
Avro
PB 245
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
Delivered to No. 619 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Revigny-sur-Ornain 18/19 Jul 1944. 41 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB246
s/n PB246
Avro
PB 246
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB247
s/n PB247
Avro
PB 247
Merlin
Known Units: ;12
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn from No. 32 MU Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Brunswick 12/13 Aug 1944. 85 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB248
s/n PB248
E
Avro
PB 248
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB249
s/n PB249
C
Avro
PB 249
Merlin
Known Units: 635;83
To No. 32 MU then to No. 83 Sqn (OL-C), perhaps with time at No.635 Sqn. Missing on operation to Konigsburg 29/30 Aug 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB250
s/n PB250
Avro
PB 250
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB251
s/n PB251
O
Avro
PB 251
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB252
s/n PB252
M
Avro
PB 252
Merlin
Known Units: 300 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB253
s/n PB253
Avro
PB 253
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB254
s/n PB254
K
Avro
PB 254
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB255
s/n PB255
Avro
PB 255
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB256
s/n PB256
P
Avro
PB 256
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB257
s/n PB257
Avro
PB 257
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB258
s/n PB258
V
Avro
PB 258
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-V) from No. 32 MU Jul 1944. Equipped with ABC radio jamming equipment. Missing on operation to Brunswick 12/13 Aug 1944. 55 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-13 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John French Andrews 2023-11-18 1944-August-13 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Gene Mitchell Atyeo 2024-11-03 1944-August-13 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer David Henry Balchin 2023-11-18 1944-August-13 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Blake Latimer Patterson 2024-12-04 1944-August-13 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Clement Fred Robert Pearce 2024-12-04 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB259
s/n PB259
Q
Avro
PB 259
Merlin
Known Units: 218 Sqn;15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB260
s/n PB260
Z
Avro
PB 260
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB261
s/n PB261
L
Avro
PB 261
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn;619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB262
s/n PB262
Avro
PB 262
Merlin
Known Units:
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*B and "LQ*P". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB263
s/n PB263
Avro
PB 263
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB264
s/n PB264
Avro
PB 264
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB265
s/n PB265
Avro
PB 265
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn;576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB266
s/n PB266
S
Avro
PB 266
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB267
s/n PB267
X
Avro
PB 267
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU;405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*H. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB280
s/n PB280
W
Avro
PB 280
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB281
s/n PB281
J
Avro
PB 281
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB282
s/n PB282
Avro
PB 282
Merlin
Known Units:
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*I and "LQ*Y". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Was "LQ*Y" when it bombed Zeitz on 16/17 February 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB283
s/n PB283
K
Avro
PB 283
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB284
s/n PB284
Avro
PB 284
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB285
s/n PB285
Avro
PB 285
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB286
s/n PB286
Avro
PB 286
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB287
s/n PB287
T
Avro
PB 287
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB288
s/n PB288
D
Avro
PB 288
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*D. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB289
s/n PB289
B
Avro
PB 289
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB290
s/n PB290
Avro
PB 290
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB291
s/n PB291
O
Avro
PB 291
Merlin
Known Units: 218 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB292
s/n PB292
S
Avro
PB 292
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB293
s/n PB293
Avro
PB 293
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB294
s/n PB294
Avro
PB 294
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB295
s/n PB295
Avro
PB 295
Merlin
Known Units: 207
Originally with No. 49 Sqn, then transferred to No. 207 Sqn Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Gravenhorst 21/22 Feb 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
1945-February-21 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class John Gardiner 2022-01-27 1945-February-21 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Maurice Emerson Granbois 2021-09-21 1945-February-21 Evader RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class C O Huntley 2021-03-25 1945-February-21 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert Campbell MacNicoll 2021-08-17 1945-February-21 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Andrew Anthony Swihura 2021-07-21 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB296
s/n PB296
X
Avro
PB 296
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB297
s/n PB297
H
Avro
PB 297
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB298
s/n PB298
Avro
PB 298
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB299
s/n PB299
Avro
PB 299
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB300
s/n PB300
K
Avro
PB 300
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB301
s/n PB301
J
Avro
PB 301
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB302
s/n PB302
B
Avro
PB 302
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB303
s/n PB303
R
Avro
PB 303
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
Delivered to No. 106 Sqn (ZN-R) Jul 1944. Missing on daylight mission to Homburg 1 Nov 1944. 291 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB304
s/n PB304
Z
Avro
PB 304
Merlin
Known Units: 106
With No. 106 Sqn. Crashed at Pendleton in daylight on return from operation to Cahagnes, Normandy 30 Jul 1944. 47 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB305
s/n PB305
Q
Avro
PB 305
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;38 Sqn;38 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB306
s/n PB306
J
Avro
PB 306
Merlin
Known Units: 467 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Bombing Karlsruhe Germany 1945-02-02 to 1945-02-02
467 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Waddington
467 Squadron RAAF (Recidite Adversarius Atque Ferociter) RAF Waddington. Lancaster III aircraft PB 306 PO-J was likely shot down by night fighter pilot Hptm Helmuth Schulte of Stab II/NJG6 over Karlsdorf, Germany on an operation against targets in Karlsruhe, Germany. The Lancaster crashed at Hohenwettersbach South-East of Karlsruhe with the loss of the entire crew
Flight Lieutenant N S C Colley (RAF), Flying Officer J M Inkster (RAAF), Pilot Officer A H Pearce (RAAF), Warrant Officer B F Weber (RAAF), Flight Sergeant F E Everatt (RAAF), Flight Sergeant F J Bean (RAAF), Flight Sergeant P J Carter (RAAF) and Sergeant D G Howdle (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database
02/03rd February 1945 467 Squadron Lancaster III PB306 Fl/Lt...
1945-February-02 KIA RAAF Flight Sergeant Frederick Jack Bean 2023-11-26 1945-February-02 KIA RAAF Flight Sergeant Phillip John Carter 2024-01-13 1945-February-02 KIA RAFVR Flight Lieutenant Noel Sidney Caesar Colley 2024-03-20 1945-February-02 KIA RAAF Flight Sergeant Frank Edgar Everatt 2023-11-26 1945-February-02 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Dennis George Howdle 2023-11-26 1945-February-02 KIA RAAF Flying Officer James Magnus Inkster 2023-11-26 1945-February-02 KIA RAAF Pilot Officer Allan Harry Pearce 2023-11-26 1945-February-02 KIA RAAF Warrant Officer Bertram Forbes Weber 2023-11-26 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB307
s/n PB307
A
Avro
PB 307
Merlin
Known Units: 35 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB308
s/n PB308
Avro
PB 308
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB324
s/n PB324
B
PB 324
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB333
s/n PB333
V
PB 333
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB341
s/n PB341
J
Avro
PB 341
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB342
s/n PB342
B
Avro
PB 342
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU;61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB343
s/n PB343
Avro
PB 343
Merlin
Known Units: 35
Delivered to No. 35 Sqn from No. 32 MU Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Hanover 5/6 Jan 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB344
s/n PB344
R
Avro
PB 344
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB345
s/n PB345
Q
Avro
PB 345
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB346
s/n PB346
Avro
PB 346
Merlin
Known Units: ;619;44
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB347
s/n PB347
G
Avro
PB 347
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB348
s/n PB348
T
Avro
PB 348
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB349
s/n PB349
Avro
PB 349
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB350
s/n PB350
G
Avro
PB 350
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB351
s/n PB351
Avro
PB 351
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB352
s/n PB352
Avro
PB 352
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB353
s/n PB353
Avro
PB 353
Merlin
Known Units: 49
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn from No. 32 MU Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Bremen 6/7 Oct 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB354
s/n PB354
Avro
PB 354
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB355
s/n PB355
Avro
PB 355
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB356
s/n PB356
G
Avro
PB 356
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
Delivered to No. 619 Sqn (PG-G) 27 Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Harburg 11/12 Nov 1944. 257 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB357
s/n PB357
Avro
PB 357
Merlin
Known Units: 7
To No. 7 Sqn from No. 32 MU. Crashed on 16 Sep 1944, but was repaired. Missing on operation to Duisburg 14/15 Oct 1944. 80 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB358
s/n PB358
J
Avro
PB 358
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB359
s/n PB359
Avro
PB 359
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB360
s/n PB360
Avro
PB 360
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB361
s/n PB361
R
Avro
PB 361
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB362
s/n PB362
W
Avro
PB 362
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB363
s/n PB363
Avro
PB 363
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB364
s/n PB364
Avro
PB 364
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB365
s/n PB365
Avro
PB 365
Merlin
Known Units: 103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Stettin 29/30 Aug 1944. 92 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB366
s/n PB366
Avro
PB 366
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB367
s/n PB367
Avro
PB 367
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB368
s/n PB368
S
Avro
PB 368
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB369
s/n PB369
Avro
PB 369
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB370
s/n PB370
C
Avro
PB 370
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn;115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB371
s/n PB371
V
Avro
PB 371
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB372
s/n PB372
Avro
PB 372
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB373
s/n PB373
O
Avro
PB 373
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB374
s/n PB374
N
Avro
PB 374
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
From No. 32 MU to 49 Sqn (EA-N) Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Lutzkendorf 8/9 Apr 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB375
s/n PB375
P
Avro
PB 375
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU;1660 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB376
s/n PB376
F
Avro
PB 376
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn;83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB377
s/n PB377
Avro
PB 377
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB378
s/n PB378
T
Avro
PB 378
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB379
s/n PB379
E
Avro
PB 379
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB380
s/n PB380
S
Avro
PB 380
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB381
s/n PB381
S
Avro
PB 381
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn;635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB382
s/n PB382
N
Avro
PB 382
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB383
s/n PB383
Avro
PB 383
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB384
s/n PB384
Avro
PB 384
Merlin
Known Units: 57
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn Aug 1944. Missing on Gardening sortie 16/17 Aug 1944. 49 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB385
s/n PB385
Avro
PB 385
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB397
s/n PB397
Avro
PB 397
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB398
s/n PB398
Avro
PB 398
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB399
s/n PB399
T
Avro
PB 399
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB400
s/n PB400
Avro
PB 400
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
Delivered to No. 576 Sqn (UL-J2) Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Kiel 26/27 Aug 1944. 52 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-27 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Jack Allan Linklater 2021-08-13 1944-August-27 PoW RCAF Sergeant Joseph Edmund Edmund O'Farrell 2023-09-21 1944-August-27 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Russ E Rogers 2021-03-15 1944-August-27 PoW Murdered RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Leslie Howard Stevenson 2021-03-15 1944-August-27 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Keith Tate 2021-03-15 1944-August-27 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Kenneth Milton Tucker 2023-08-14 1944-December-27 PoW Murdered RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Leslie Howard Stevenson 2021-07-22 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB401
s/n PB401
Avro
PB 401
Merlin
Known Units: ;635
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB402
s/n PB402
M
Avro
PB 402
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*M. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Failed to return from operation over Zeitz on 16/17 January 1945, may have collided over Germany with KB850 of 434 Squadron. Crashed near Pfaffenhausen, pieces of wreckage reported still visible in 2006. All crew lost, including pilot Flight Lieutenant H.L. Payne (on his 16th mission) and w/op Flight Sergeant Joseph Bruggeman.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Zeitz Germany Braunkoll synthetic-oil plant 1945-01-16 to 1945-01-16
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
p405 City of Vancouver Sqn (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force, RAF Gransden Lodge, Lancaster III aircraft PB 402 LQ-M involved in a mid-air collision with 434 Sqn Lancaster KB 850 WL-O over Pfaffenhausen, Germany during a flight to mark the target on a night attack against the Braunkoll synthetic-oil plant at Zeitz, Germany. Both aircraft and aircrews were lost. Pilot Officer NLL Smith (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant HL Payne (RCAF), Flying Officer HE Novak (RCAF), Flying Officer DG McKay (RCAF), Pilot Officer JA Bruggeman (RCAF), Pilot Officer AB Miller (RCAF), Pilot Officer BR Cunliffe (RCAF), and Sergeant HA Marshall (RAFVR) were killed on Lancaster PB 402 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Aloysuis Bruggeman 2024-11-23 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Benjamin Robert Cunliffe 2024-05-27 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donald Gordon McKay 2025-03-17 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Allan Bernard Miller 2025-03-17 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Henry Eugene Novak 2025-03-17 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Harold Leslie Payne 2025-03-17 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Lawrence Lavek Smith 2025-03-17 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB403
s/n PB403
Avro
PB 403
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB404
s/n PB404
X
Avro
PB 404
Merlin
Known Units: 227 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB405
s/n PB405
A
Avro
PB 405
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn; PNTU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB406
s/n PB406
X
Avro
PB 406
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB407
s/n PB407
Avro
PB 407
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB408
s/n PB408
Avro
PB 408
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB409
s/n PB409
Avro
PB 409
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB410
s/n PB410
J
Avro
PB 410
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB411
s/n PB411
Avro
PB 411
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
Delivered to No. 626 Sqn (UM-Y2) Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Lutzkendorf 4/5 Apr 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
1945-April-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant James William Churms 2024-04-04 1945-April-05 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donald Hugh Johnson 2024-04-21 1945-April-05 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harold William Reid 2024-05-01 1945-April-05 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Semeniuk 2024-05-01 1945-April-05 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Matthew Frederick Easton Sergeant 2024-05-01 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB412
s/n PB412
Avro
PB 412
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB413
s/n PB413
K
Avro
PB 413
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*K and "LQ*O". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Dusseldorf Germany 1944-11-02 to 1944-11-03
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force. Target - Dusseldorf, Germany. Lancaster aircraft PB 413 was badly shot up. Flight Sergeant E.E.Perini baled out It was his 32nd operation. A/C was returning from the target when Flight Lieutenant G.A. Martin (Air Bomber) took over the controls and made a crash landing one half mile south-east of the aerodrome at Debden, Essex, England on November 2, 1944. Flying Officer Hannah subsequently died of his wounds during surgery in hospital and was the only casualty.
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB414
s/n PB414
Avro
PB 414
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB415
s/n PB415
Avro
PB 415
Merlin
Known Units:
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF at Gransden Lodge, UK, coded "LQ*T". Failed to return from mission to Deurag oil refinery at Misburg on 16 March 1945. All crew killed. May have collided with NG488 over target.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB416
s/n PB416
V
Avro
PB 416
Merlin
Known Units: 617
Delivered to No. 617 Sqn Aug 1944. Missing over Norway 17 Sep 1944 on returning from Yagodnik, USSR, after the attack on the battleship Tirpitz (operation Paravane) mounted by Nos. 9 and 617 Squadrons on 11-15 September 1944. The aircraft carried "Johnnie Walker" mines in the attack.last update: 2025-February-05
Ferry Flight Tirpitz 1944-09-17 to 1944-09-17
617 (B) Sqn (RAF) Yagodnik, USSR
Battleship Tirpitz
The aircraft (KC-V), piloted by Flying Officer F. Levy, was returning to its base at Woodhall Spa, England from the Russian base at Yagodnik after having participated in the attack from Yagodnik on the battleship Tirpitz, in Alten Fjord, Norway (Operation Paravane). It crashed on high ground in Norway, near the town of Nesbyen . All on board were killed. There were 9 men on board, two being crew members from an aircraft that had crashed on the way to Yagodnik.
There was one Canadian on board, Pilot Officer AF McNally. All of the others were in the RAF. They were, Flying Officers F Levy, CL Fox, JF Naylor and DC Shea DFC, Flight Sergeants EES Peck, GM McGuire, and DG Thomas, and Sergeant PW Groom. Naylor and Shea were from the crew of Squadron Leader DRC Wyness DFC.
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB417
s/n PB417
Avro
PB 417
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB418
s/n PB418
C
Avro
PB 418
Merlin
Known Units: 75 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB419
s/n PB419
Q
Avro
PB 419
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn; BCIS
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB420
s/n PB420
O
Avro
PB 420
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB421
s/n PB421
J
Avro
PB 421
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB422
s/n PB422
Avro
PB 422
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB423
s/n PB423
P
Avro
PB 423
Merlin
Known Units: BCIS
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB424
s/n PB424
X
Avro
PB 424
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB425
s/n PB425
Avro
PB 425
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB426
s/n PB426
D
Avro
PB 426
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB427
s/n PB427
U
Avro
PB 427
Merlin
Known Units: 75 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB428
s/n PB428
P
Avro
PB 428
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn;514 Sqn
Delivered from No. 32 MU to No. 207 Sq. Aug/Sep 1944. Collided with Lancaster LM 648 of No. 44 Sqn in circuit of Spilsby on return from a mission to Harburg, 11 Nov 1944. 145 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB429
s/n PB429
Avro
PB 429
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB430
s/n PB430
Avro
PB 430
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB431
s/n PB431
D
Avro
PB 431
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB432
s/n PB432
Avro
PB 432
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB433
s/n PB433
Avro
PB 433
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB434
s/n PB434
R
Avro
PB 434
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB435
s/n PB435
G
Avro
PB 435
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB436
s/n PB436
Avro
PB 436
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB437
s/n PB437
W
Avro
PB 437
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU;7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB438
s/n PB438
U
Avro
PB 438
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn;97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB450
s/n PB450
Avro
PB 450
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB451
s/n PB451
G
Avro
PB 451
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*G and "LQ*C". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Witten Germany 1945-03-19 to 1945-03-19
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster aircraft PB 451 did not return from a night trip to Witten, Germany. Pilot Officer J.P. Adam, F/Os E. Hayes, R.S. Butterworth, J.E Peaker,Warrant Officer R.M. Baker, FS E.F. Perrault, Sergeants A. Kirkcaldy (RAF), and R.P. Smith (RAF) were all killed. 1945-March-19 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Paul Hector Adam 2024-11-01 1945-March-19 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Ralph Murray Baker 2024-11-05 1945-March-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth 2024-11-27 1945-March-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ernest Hayes 2025-04-01 1945-March-19 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Alexander Kirkcaldy 2025-04-01 1945-March-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George Ernest Peaker 2025-04-01 1945-March-19 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ernest Francis Perrault 2025-04-01 1945-March-19 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Roy Peter Smith 2025-04-01 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB452
s/n PB452
W
Avro
PB 452
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB453
s/n PB453
S
Avro
PB 453
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
To No. 32 MU then to No. 635 Sqn (F2-S) Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Essen 12/13 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB454
s/n PB454
J
Avro
PB 454
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB455
s/n PB455
W
Avro
PB 455
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB456
s/n PB456
Avro
PB 456
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
With No. 101 Sq. Equipped with ABC radio jamming gear. Crashed on training exercise over Stirling, Scotland. 13 Sep 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB457
s/n PB457
V
Avro
PB 457
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB458
s/n PB458
Avro
PB 458
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB459
s/n PB459
V
Avro
PB 459
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB460
s/n PB460
Avro
PB 460
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB461
s/n PB461
M
Avro
PB 461
Merlin
Known Units: ;97
last update: 2025-June-06
Bombing Politz Germany 1944-12-21 to 1944-12-21
(B) Sqn (RAF) Coningsby
97 Squadron (Achieve Your Aim), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster aircraft The aircraft was flying in formation with 189 Sqn Lancaster PB691 CA-D. 207 Lancasters and One Mosquito of 5 Group attacked the synthetic oil refinery at Politz near Stettin.
While cruising over the south part of Norway, the aircraft went out of control and crashed on the slope of a wooded hill. All seven crew members were killed. Cause of crash unknown. ORB reports weather at target was clear.
1944-December-21 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Thomas David Cremins 2024-11-28 1944-December-21 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Edward Joseph Hobbs 2024-11-28 1944-December-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer George Herbert Kendall 2024-11-28 1944-December-21 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Kevin Mannion 2024-11-28 1944-December-21 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Stanlet Baldwin Morgan 2024-11-28 1944-December-21 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Gorson Anthony O'neil Oliver 2024-11-28 1944-December-21 KIA RAAF Flying Officer William Robert Sinclair 2024-11-28 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB462
s/n PB462
Avro
PB 462
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU;100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB463
s/n PB463
Avro
PB 463
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB464
s/n PB464
Avro
PB 464
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB465
s/n PB465
Avro
PB 465
Merlin
Known Units: 103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn Aug 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Dortmund 29 Nov 1944. 236 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Dortmund Germany 1944-11-29 to 1944-11-29
(B) Sqn (RAF) Elsham Wolds
On a daylight mission to Dortmund, Germany at the Cologne turning point, aircraft collided with Lancaster, PD313, 550Sqn. The starboard rudder controls were severed and the order to bail out was given. The Bomb aimer managed to escape through his hatch and the aircraft exploded immediately after he fell out. There were no other survivors.
Killed includes Cooke: Flight Sergeant James Alfred Goff RCAF R/194962 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 8. C. 14. Warrant Officer Class 2 Francis Ignatius Roy Bruce Hill RCAF R/185307 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 8. C. 13. Pilot Officer John Herbert Charles McCoubray RCAF J/95369 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 8. C. 12. Pilot Officer Melvin Osborne Orr RCAF J/95460 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 17. Sergeant Edward Walter McGrath RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 8. C. 11.
POWs: Flight Sergeant G T Mortimer RAF POW (injured). Camp was not listed. Mortimer was commissioned during his time in captivity (F/O).
1944-November-29 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Jackson Chartis Cooke CGM 2024-09-30 1944-November-29 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant James Alfred Goff 2024-09-30 1944-November-29 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Francis Ignatius Roy Bruce Hill 2024-09-30 1944-November-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Herbert Charles McCoubrey 2024-09-30 1944-November-29 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Edward Walter McGrath 2024-09-30 1944-November-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Melvin Osborne Orr 2024-09-30 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB466
s/n PB466
Avro
PB 466
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB467
s/n PB467
Avro
PB 467
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB468
s/n PB468
B
Avro
PB 468
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB469
s/n PB469
Avro
PB 469
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB470
s/n PB470
F
Avro
PB 470
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB471
s/n PB471
Avro
PB 471
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB472
s/n PB472
Avro
PB 472
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB473
s/n PB473
F
Avro
PB 473
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB474
s/n PB474
L
Avro
PB 474
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB475
s/n PB475
Avro
PB 475
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB476
s/n PB476
Y
Avro
PB 476
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB477
s/n PB477
B
Avro
PB 477
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*B. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Failed to return from operation over Nuremberg on 2 January 1945. May have been shot down by night fighter, or by flak. 2 crash sites reported: 3 km ENE of Nufringen and SSW of Nuremburg. Five crew killed, two PoW.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Nuremberg Germany 1945-01-02 to 1945-01-02
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*B. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Failed to return from operation over Nuremberg on 2 January 1945. May have been shot down by night fighter, or by flak. 2 crash sites reported: 3 km ENE of Nufringen and SSW of Nuremburg
Squadron Leader Nathan CRAWFORD (J/12954) Navigator; Flight Lieutenant Eric Cecil DUKE (118147) Wireless Op; Pilot Officer Stanley Herbert FITZHENRY (410475); Flying Officer Gerald Edward GEEVES (J/19058) Air Gunner; Wing Commander Kenneth John LAWSON (82728) Pilot. (This was W/C Lawson's 93rd bombing mission)
Prisoners of War for Lancaster PB477 - Sergeant Sidney RHODES (1680670);W/O1 Dorland Gillies PLYLEY (R/108467)
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB478
s/n PB478
E
Avro
PB 478
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB479
s/n PB479
Avro
PB 479
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB480
s/n PB480
G
Avro
PB 480
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn;170 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB481
s/n PB481
Avro
PB 481
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB482
s/n PB482
D
Avro
PB 482
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB483
s/n PB483
X
Avro
PB 483
Merlin
Known Units: 149 Sqn;189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB484
s/n PB484
T
Avro
PB 484
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB485
s/n PB485
X
Avro
PB 485
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*X. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB486
s/n PB486
Avro
PB 486
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB487
s/n PB487
V
Avro
PB 487
Merlin
Known Units: 149 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB488
s/n PB488
Avro
PB 488
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB489
s/n PB489
S
Avro
PB 489
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;1660 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB490
s/n PB490
B
Avro
PB 490
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB504
s/n PB504
U
Avro
PB 504
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB505
s/n PB505
B
Avro
PB 505
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn;149 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB506
s/n PB506
Avro
PB 506
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB507
s/n PB507
Avro
PB 507
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB508
s/n PB508
Avro
PB 508
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB509
s/n PB509
Y
Avro
PB 509
Merlin
Known Units: 149 Sqn;189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB510
s/n PB510
Avro
PB 510
Merlin
Known Units: ;97
With 97 Sqn. Missing from operation to Darmstadt11/12 Sep 1944. First operationlast update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB511
s/n PB511
Avro
PB 511
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB512
s/n PB512
Avro
PB 512
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB513
s/n PB513
Avro
PB 513
Merlin
Known Units:
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*H, "LQ*R" and "LQ*U". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB514
s/n PB514
Avro
PB 514
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB515
s/n PB515
Avro
PB 515
Merlin
Known Units: 153
Originally with No. 106 Sqn, then transferred to No. 153 Sqn. Collided with Lancaster NG 421 of No. 150 Sqn 2 Jan 1945 and crashed at Sudbrook, Lincs.last update: 2025-February-05
1945-January-02 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Maurice Vaughn Durling 2024-10-30 1945-January-02 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Arthur Jason Eberle 2021-08-05 1945-January-02 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Dunk Hoskins 2022-12-12 1945-January-02 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Charles Herman Pogson 2023-05-23 1945-January-02 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Daniel Clifford Reid 2021-08-10 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB516
s/n PB516
T
Avro
PB 516
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*T. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Failed to return from target marking operation over Misburg on 16 March 1945, crashed near the target, the Deurag oil plant, at Schloss Rothestein. May have collided over Bad Sooden-Allendorf, near the target, with Lancaster NG488 of No. 153 Squadron, RAF.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Misburg Germany 1945-03-15 to 1945-03-15
405 () () Gransden Lodge
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster aircraft PB 516 was lost during a night raid against Misburg, Germany. P/Os R.B. Jones, D.I. Galbraith, F.J. Miller, Flying Officer H.E. Wort, FS D.A. Holliday, Flying Officer C.A. Boulton, and Sergeant Leslie DOVASTON, RAF,(2216269) Flight Engi; Flight Lieutenant K.E. Parkhurst were all killed.1945-March-16 Failed to Return failed to return from operation over Misburg 2019-08-20
1945-March-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Clive Arkoll Boulton 2024-11-15 1945-March-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald Irwin Galbraith 2025-02-02 1945-March-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant David Andrew Holliday 2025-02-02 1945-March-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Richard Barren Jones 2025-02-02 1945-March-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Francis John Miller 2025-02-02 1945-March-15 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Keith Edwin Parkhurst 2025-02-02 1945-March-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Hardy Edward Wort 2025-02-02 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB517
s/n PB517
Avro
PB 517
Merlin
Known Units: 156
Originally with No. 7 Sqn, then to No. 156 Sqn Sep 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Hamburg 31 Mar 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB518
s/n PB518
Avro
PB 518
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB519
s/n PB519
Avro
PB 519
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB520
s/n PB520
Avro
PB 520
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB521
s/n PB521
Avro
PB 521
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB522
s/n PB522
Avro
PB 522
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB523
s/n PB523
J
Avro
PB 523
Merlin
Known Units: ;582
Delivered from No. 32 MU to No. 35 Sqn Sep 1944. Transferred to No. 582 Sqn 18 Dec 1944. Missing on daylight raid on Cologne 23 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Cologne Germany 1944-12-23 to 1944-12-23
(PFF) Sqn (RAF) RAF Little Staughton
Lancaster PB523
Took off at from Little Staughton at 10:29 for an operation to Köln, Germany.
Out-bound crashed at Opitter (Limburg), 4 km SE of Bree Belgium.
The aircraft withstood a series of fighter attacks, but with the aircraft ablaze Flight Lieutenant Thomas was obliged to give the order to bale out. Four of his crew got out and survived; a fifth, the Flight Engineer Flt Sergeant Hobbs, also made it clear but his chute cruelly failed to open. Thomas stayed at the controls with one of the wounded gunners, Warrant Officer Tex Campbell RCAF. Neither made it home. Fg Off Vaughan RCAF was captured on 23 December 1944 near Krefeld. Fg Off William Ewart Vaughan RCAF - PoW/Dulag Luft Oberursel/Dulag Luft Wetzlar Stalag Luft 1 Barth Vogelsang/PoW Number? Plt Off Campbell was initially buried in Opitter Roman Catholic Cemetery Belgium. Reinterred 30 November 1945. Sergeant Fallon initially reported injured and POW was subsequently reported "Safe in the UK".
1944-December-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Frederick William Campbell 2024-12-14 1944-December-23 Survived RAFVR Sergeant G Fallon 2024-12-16 1944-December-23 PoW RAFVR Warrant Officer Class ll Herbert Fuller 2024-12-16 1944-December-23 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Vivian George Hobbs 2024-12-14 1944-December-23 KIA RAFVR Flight Lieutenant Peter Alfred Thomas DFC 2024-12-16 1944-December-23 PoW RCAF Flying Officer William Ewart Vaughan 2024-12-14 1944-December-23 PoW RAFVR Flight Lieutenant Ayton Richardson Whitaker 2024-12-16 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB524
s/n PB524
C
Avro
PB 524
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB525
s/n PB525
P
Avro
PB 525
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*P. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Scholven Germany 1944-12-29 to 1944-12-29
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) RAF Gransden Lodge
405 Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus) Pathfinder Force, RAF Gransden Lodge. Lancaster III aircraft PB 525 LQ-P was lost without a trace performing Pathfinder duties during an operation against the synthetic-oil facilities at Scholven, Germany. The cause of loss and crash location are unknown to date
Flying Officer Howard Raymond Dryer (RCAF), Flying Officer Gerald Gordon Fox (RCAF), Pilot Officer Alan Wardell Haley (RCAF), Sergeant Thomas Raymond Harrigan (RCAF), Pilot Officer Ernest Richard Kaesemodel (RCAF), Pilot Officer Donald John MacFarlane (RCAF), Flying Officer James Murray Phillips (RCAF) and Flying Officer Frederick Harold Wilsher (RCAF) were all missing, presumed killed in action
The missing have no known grave and all are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
1944-December-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Howard Raymond Dryer 2025-02-06 1944-December-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Gerald Gordon Fox 2025-02-06 1944-December-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Alan Wardell Haley 2025-02-06 1944-December-29 KIA RCAF Sergeant Thomas Raymond Harrigan 2025-02-06 1944-December-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ernest Richard Kaesemodel 2025-02-06 1944-December-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald John MacFarlane 2025-02-06 1944-December-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Murray Phillips 2025-02-06 1944-December-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Frederick Harold Wilsher 2025-02-06 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB526
s/n PB526
N
Avro
PB 526
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB527
s/n PB527
K
Avro
PB 527
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*K. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Kiel Germany 1944-09-15 to 1944-09-16
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster III aircraft PB 527 lost during night operations over Kiel, Germany.
Flight Lieutenant Robert BROOK (174668); Pilot Officer Gordon James EDWARDS (177700); Flight Sergeant Alan William GOWDEY (1813553) Wireless Op; Flight Sergeant William Desmond LEAVESLEY (1575439); Flight Lieutenant Ronald Walter LONG (J/18760) Pilot; Warrant Officer Class II John RAIKE (R/127923); Sergeant Ronald Ivor YORK (1819034) All Killed
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB528
s/n PB528
Avro
PB 528
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB529
s/n PB529
F
Avro
PB 529
Merlin
Known Units: 224 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB530
s/n PB530
W
Avro
PB 530
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*Q and "LQ*W". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Bombed Zeitz on 16/17 January 1945 as "LQ*W". Failed to return from operation over Dortmund, 21 February 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Dortmund Germany 1945-02-21 to 1945-02-21
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Lancaster, took off from Gransden Lodge approximately 2200 hours. Set course, target Dortmund. Due on target at H plus 2 (approximately, i.e. about 0030 hours), 21 February 1945 as visual centrer (P.F.F.). Ran up on target through slight barrage flak. Dropped about one minute late (i.e. H plus 3) and waited for picture. Camera was turning over when hit by flak in port outer and No.2 starboard tank - both on fire. Ordered crew prepare bale out. About one minute later ordered crew bale out, having feathered and put out fire in port outer but tank fire was spreading rapidly. .All crew except Mid Upper Gunner and Rear Gunner baled out..
G.E. Bolland (killed, DFM gazetted 1 March 1946; left the aircraft by parachute but did not survive the descent); Squadron Leader H.F.Marcou, DFC, AFC, RCAF (injured); Flying Officer T.W.Downey (injured); Flying Officer R.O.Norse, RNZAF (injured); Flying Officer B.G.Smoker (injured); Flying Officer J.A. Lewis (injured); Flying Officer J.T.Ross. RCAF (POW); Technical Sergeant J.W.Verner, USAAF (injured). Survivors were confined in hospital due to injuries until liberation. No POW numbers.
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB531
s/n PB531
Avro
PB 531
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB532
s/n PB532
Avro
PB 532
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB533
s/n PB533
Q
Avro
PB 533
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB534
s/n PB534
Avro
PB 534
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB535
s/n PB535
Avro
PB 535
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB536
s/n PB536
Avro
PB 536
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB537
s/n PB537
Avro
PB 537
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB538
s/n PB538
M
Avro
PB 538
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB539
s/n PB539
Avro
PB 539
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB540
s/n PB540
Avro
PB 540
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB541
s/n PB541
Avro
PB 541
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB542
s/n PB542
Avro
PB 542
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB543
s/n PB543
PB 543
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB544
s/n PB544
PB 544
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB545
s/n PB545
PB 545
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB546
s/n PB546
PB 546
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB547
s/n PB547
PB 547
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB548
s/n PB548
PB 548
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB549
s/n PB549
PB 549
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB550
s/n PB550
PB 550
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB551
s/n PB551
PB 551
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB552
s/n PB552
PB 552
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB553
s/n PB553
PB 553
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB554
s/n PB554
M
Avro
PB 554
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB555
s/n PB555
J
Avro
PB 555
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn;635 Sqn;405 Sqn;35 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*O. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB556
s/n PB556
Avro
PB 556
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB557
s/n PB557
Avro
PB 557
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn;460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Bombing Chemnitz Germany 1945-03-06 to 1945-03-06
460 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster PB857 was on an operational raid on a oil refinery at Chemnitz, in the state of Saxony, Germany, when it was hit by flak and crashed near Pfieffe, Germany, where its bomb load exploded. Casualties included RAAF Sqn Leader J.C. Holmes (FDC) (pilot); RAAF Flying Officer I.S. Baudinette; RAAF Flying Officer D.G. Hudspeth; RAAF Flt. Sgt. T.T. Clarke; RAAF W/O E.O.T. Mayne; RAAF Flt. Lt. T.E.V. Morgan (DFM); RAFVR Flt. Sgt. R.E. Hayward (bomb aimer); and RAFVR Sgt. J. Young (flight engineer).Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB558
s/n PB558
Avro
PB 558
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB559
s/n PB559
T
Avro
PB 559
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB560
s/n PB560
Avro
PB 560
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB561
s/n PB561
Avro
PB 561
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB562
s/n PB562
Avro
PB 562
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB563
s/n PB563
Avro
PB 563
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB564
s/n PB564
Avro
PB 564
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB565
s/n PB565
R
Avro
PB 565
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB566
s/n PB566
Avro
PB 566
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB567
s/n PB567
Avro
PB 567
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB568
s/n PB568
Avro
PB 568
Merlin
Known Units: ;49
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB569
s/n PB569
Avro
PB 569
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB570
s/n PB570
Avro
PB 570
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB571
s/n PB571
Z
Avro
PB 571
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB572
s/n PB572
Avro
PB 572
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB573
s/n PB573
H
Avro
PB 573
Merlin
Known Units: 170 Sqn
Delivered to No. 170 Sqn (TC-H) Oct 1944. Missing on operation to Duisburg 21/22 Feb 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB574
s/n PB574
Avro
PB 574
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB575
s/n PB575
G
Avro
PB 575
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB576
s/n PB576
Avro
PB 576
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB577
s/n PB577
Avro
PB 577
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB578
s/n PB578
R
Avro
PB 578
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn;1666 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB579
s/n PB579
Avro
PB 579
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB580
s/n PB580
Avro
PB 580
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB581
s/n PB581
R
Avro
PB 581
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn; BCIS
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB582
s/n PB582
T
Avro
PB 582
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU;7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB583
s/n PB583
A
Avro
PB 583
Merlin
Known Units: 35 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB584
s/n PB584
M
Avro
PB 584
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;1660 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB585
s/n PB585
P
Avro
PB 585
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn;405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*P. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB586
s/n PB586
V
Avro
PB 586
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB587
s/n PB587
Avro
PB 587
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB588
s/n PB588
Avro
PB 588
Merlin
Known Units: 97
Delivered to No. 97 Sqn from No. 32 MU Oct 1944. Missing on operation to Horten 23/24 Feb 1945. [Mason gives No. 635 Sqn before No. 97]last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB589
s/n PB589
Avro
PB 589
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB590
s/n PB590
Z
Avro
PB 590
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn;619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB591
s/n PB591
O
Avro
PB 591
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB592
s/n PB592
Avro
PB 592
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB593
s/n PB593
C
Avro
PB 593
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB594
s/n PB594
D
Avro
PB 594
Merlin
Known Units: 189 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB595
s/n PB595
J
Avro
PB 595
Merlin
Known Units: 170 Sqn
Delivered to No. 170 Sqn (TC-J) Oct 1944. Missing on operation to Pforzheim 223/24 Feb 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
1945-February-23 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant William Mackie Constable 2024-05-17 1945-February-23 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class S Hart 2023-08-24 1945-February-23 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ross John Hugh Johnstone 2024-06-01 1945-February-23 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Elmer Leliever 2024-06-05 1945-February-23 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant D Peletz 2023-09-23 1945-February-24 PoW RCAF Flying Officer R R Sommers 2023-10-01 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB596
s/n PB596
H
Avro
PB 596
Merlin
Known Units: 1668 HCU;227 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB597
s/n PB597
PB 597
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB598
s/n PB598
PB 598
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB599
s/n PB599
PB 599
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB600
s/n PB600
PB 600
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB601
s/n PB601
PB 601
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB602
s/n PB602
PB 602
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB603
s/n PB603
PB 603
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB604
s/n PB604
PB 604
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB605
s/n PB605
PB 605
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB606
s/n PB606
PB 606
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB607
s/n PB607
PB 607
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB608
s/n PB608
PB 608
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB609
s/n PB609
A
Avro
PB 609
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB610
s/n PB610
O
Avro
PB 610
Merlin
Known Units: 227 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB611
s/n PB611
D
Avro
PB 611
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU;156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB612
s/n PB612
Avro
PB 612
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB613
s/n PB613
Avro
PB 613
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB614
s/n PB614
V
Avro
PB 614
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*V. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB615
s/n PB615
Avro
PB 615
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB616
s/n PB616
A
Avro
PB 616
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB617
s/n PB617
B
Avro
PB 617
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB618
s/n PB618
Avro
PB 618
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB619
s/n PB619
Avro
PB 619
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB620
s/n PB620
Avro
PB 620
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB621
s/n PB621
Avro
PB 621
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB622
s/n PB622
C
Avro
PB 622
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB623
s/n PB623
B
Avro
PB 623
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;1660 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB624
s/n PB624
Avro
PB 624
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB625
s/n PB625
E
Avro
PB 625
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB626
s/n PB626
E
Avro
PB 626
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB627
s/n PB627
T
Avro
PB 627
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn;405 Sqn;1660 HCU
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*J. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB628
s/n PB628
W
Avro
PB 628
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn;405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*W and "LQ*J". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB629
s/n PB629
J
Avro
PB 629
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB630
s/n PB630
A
Avro
PB 630
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB631
s/n PB631
K
Avro
PB 631
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB632
s/n PB632
Avro
PB 632
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB633
s/n PB633
J
Avro
PB 633
Merlin
Known Units: 153
Delivered to No. 153 Sqn Oct 1944. Crashed after mid-air collision over Laon, France and crashed, 17 Dec 1944, probably on operation to Ulm, Germany.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Ulm Germany 1944-12-17 to 1944-12-17
(B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Kimington
Mid air collision with 156 Squadron PB675 GT-C. Crashed at Vienna-La-Ville at approximately at 21:15.
Pilot Officer J.L. Leckie, Flying Officer Schoop RCAF and Flying Officer G.D. Hetherington were killed. One of the crew, not Canadian, missing believed killed. Three other Canadians in the crew, Flight Sergeant Taylor, Sergeants Pratt, and H. Cuthbertson, returned to their unit on Dec 28/44.
Sergeant Leckie RCAF and Flying Officer Schoop RCAF, were initially buried in a collective grave at Vienna-La-Ville. Reinterred 21 May 1945.
Flying Officer Hetherington RCAF was initially buried in Champpiguel US Cemetery. Reinterred 21 May 1945
. 1944-December-17 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Davies. Edward Whelan Davies. Edward Whelan 2024-11-25 1944-December-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George Donald Frederick Hetherington 2024-11-25 1944-December-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Lyle Leckie 2024-11-25 1944-December-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harold Harrison Schopp 2024-11-25 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB634
s/n PB634
U
Avro
PB 634
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
To No. 101 Sqn (SR-U) from No. 32 MU Oct 1944. Equipped with ABC radio jamming equipment. Missing on operation to Bonn 28/29 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Bonn Germany 1944-12-28 to 1944-12-28
101 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Ludford Magna
101 Squadron (Mons Agitat Molem), RAF Ludford Magna. ABC equipped Lancaster III aircraft PB 634 SR-U and its bomb load blew up in mid-air over Lengsdorf, Germany during a night raid against targets in Bonn, Germany, with the loss of the entire crew
The Lancaster was probably shot down by Fw Richard Richter 8NJG 2 and crashed close to the target area near Lengsdorf, 2 km SW of Bonn, Germany
Pilot Officer CM Buell (RCAF), Pilot Officer JB McGregor (RCAF), Pilot Officer BV Cobbett (RCAF), Pilot Officer CR Bradley (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant WK Parke (RCAF), Sergeant WG Classen (RAFVR), Flying Officer K Gibbs DFC (RAFVR) and Sergeant D King (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Sergeant King was the Special Duties Operator for the ABC equipment. Airborne Cigar (ABC) was a transmitter aboard aircraft developed by A&AEE (Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment), which jammed German fighter control frequencies, making it more difficult to vector night fighters to the area where the bombers were flying
[Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...
Lancaster III PB634 SR-U 101 Sqn.
"Belgians Remember Them": RAF aircraft's crash sites: Province of ...
1944-December-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Charles Raymond Bradley 2022-11-14 1944-December-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Chester Merrill Buell 2022-11-14 1944-December-28 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William George Classen 2024-02-29 1944-December-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Bernard Victor Cobbett 2024-03-07 1944-December-28 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer Kenneth Gibbs DFC 2022-11-14 1944-December-28 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Ronald King 2022-11-14 1944-December-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Bruce McGregor 2022-11-14 1944-December-28 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant William Kelvin Parke 2022-11-14 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB635
s/n PB635
Avro
PB 635
Merlin
Known Units: ;166
Originally with No. 576 Sqn (UL-C2), then transferred to No. 166 Sqn. Missing from operation to Nuremburg 2/3 Jan 1945last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB636
s/n PB636
D
Avro
PB 636
Merlin
Known Units: 153 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB637
s/n PB637
Avro
PB 637
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB638
s/n PB638
O
Avro
PB 638
Merlin
Known Units: 153 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB639
s/n PB639
I
Avro
PB 639
Merlin
Known Units: 153 Sqn
With No. 166 Sqn then No. 153 Sqn. (P4-I). Missing on operation to Dusseldorf 2/3 Nov 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Sergeant Richard Elmer Fahselt 2021-08-06 1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Sergeant Clifford Allan Lord 2021-08-13 1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Maurice Allan McCann 2021-08-17 1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Jamieson McCormack 2021-08-17 1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Clifford Conrad Robertson 2021-08-08 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB640
s/n PB640
Avro
PB 640
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB641
s/n PB641
U
Avro
PB 641
Merlin
Known Units: 210 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB642
s/n PB642
Avro
PB 642
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB643
s/n PB643
S
Avro
PB 643
Merlin
Known Units: 227 Sqn
Mk. I per Aviation Safety.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB644
s/n PB644
Avro
PB 644
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB645
s/n PB645
A
Avro
PB 645
Merlin
Known Units: 227 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB646
s/n PB646
Avro
PB 646
Merlin
Known Units: 227
Delivered to No. 227 Sqn (9J-P) Oct 1944. Missing on raid to Giessen 6/7 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB647
s/n PB647
Q
Avro
PB 647
Merlin
Known Units: 227 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB648
s/n PB648
Avro
PB 648
Merlin
Known Units: 625;166
Delivered to No. 625 Sqn Oct 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Duren, 16 Nov 1944, with 166 Squadron. 67 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-November-16 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ralph William Carroll 2024-01-08 1944-November-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Edward Thomas Coles 2024-04-29 1944-November-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Kenneth Douglas Farrow 2021-08-06 1944-November-16 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Edmund Leaman 2023-08-22 1944-November-16 KIA RCAF Sergeant Ralph Robert Henry Schnaufer 2021-08-04 1944-November-16 KIA RCAF Sergeant Neil Lauretz Smith 2021-07-26 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB649
s/n PB649
K
Avro
PB 649
Merlin
Known Units: 227 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB650
s/n PB650
U
Avro
PB 650
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*U. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Stuttgart Germany 1945-01-28 to 1945-01-28
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster aircraft P6650 was shot down at Deufringen, Germany during a night attack against Stuttgart, Germany. F/Os F.H. Cummer, W.B. Turner, FSs G.A. Smith, J.N. Rae, E.R Savage and Sergeant W. McCabrey (RAF) were also killed; one Canadian, FS MacDougall, was taken Prisoner of War.
1945-January-29 Failed to Return failed to return from operation over Stuttgart 2019-08-20
1945-January-28 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Franklin Howard Cummer 2024-05-26 1945-January-28 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant D A MacDougall 2023-09-07 1945-January-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John MacCauley Rae 2024-06-22 1945-January-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Edwin Robert Savage 2024-06-28 1945-January-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Gerald Albert Smith 2024-06-28 1945-January-28 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Walter Brian Turner 2024-07-10 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB651
s/n PB651
Avro
PB 651
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB652
s/n PB652
Avro
PB 652
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB653
s/n PB653
Avro
PB 653
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB665
s/n PB665
PB 665
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB666
s/n PB666
J
Avro
PB 666
Merlin
Known Units: 227 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB667
s/n PB667
Q
Avro
PB 667
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB668
s/n PB668
Avro
PB 668
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB669
s/n PB669
Avro
PB 669
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB670
s/n PB670
Avro
PB 670
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB671
s/n PB671
M
Avro
PB 671
Merlin
Known Units: 1666 HCU;101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB672
s/n PB672
Avro
PB 672
Merlin
Known Units: ;227
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB673
s/n PB673
Avro
PB 673
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB674
s/n PB674
Q
Avro
PB 674
Merlin
Known Units: 218 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB675
s/n PB675
C
Avro
PB 675
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
There seems to be a difference between different sources for this aircraft. Robertson gives it as coming from No. 32 MU to No. 156 Sqn. Mason gives it as coming to No. 156 Sqn from No. 35 Sqn. Robertson says that the aircraft was SOC 28 Dec 1944. Mason gives the aircraft missing on operation to Ulm 17/18 Dec 1944. This date is confirmed by the rafcommands website and the CASPIR data.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB676
s/n PB676
Avro
PB 676
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB677
s/n PB677
N
Avro
PB 677
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB678
s/n PB678
F
Avro
PB 678
Merlin
Known Units: 35
Delivered to No. 35 Sqn (TL-F) Oct 1944. Collided with Lancaster PB683 off North Foreland en route for Cologne on a daylight operation 23 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB679
s/n PB679
O
Avro
PB 679
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB680
s/n PB680
B
Avro
PB 680
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB681
s/n PB681
M
Avro
PB 681
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*M. Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB682
s/n PB682
Avro
PB 682
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB683
s/n PB683
Avro
PB 683
Merlin
Known Units: ;35
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB684
s/n PB684
Avro
PB 684
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB685
s/n PB685
J
Avro
PB 685
Merlin
Known Units: 35 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB686
s/n PB686
D
Avro
PB 686
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB687
s/n PB687
Avro
PB 687
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
With 626 Sqn (UM-Q2). Missinng on a daylight operation to Osterfeld, 31 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Osterfeld Germany 1944-12-31 to 1944-12-31
626 (B) Sqn (RAF) Wickenby
Lancaster aircraft PB 687 was shot down by an enemy fighter aircraft during operations against Osterfield, Germany. Flying Officer W H Pogson and FS. K.H. Austin (RAF) were also killed. The crew were ordered to bail out and all the crew responded except FS. Casey. The four survivors, three Canadians and one not Canadian, jumped out of the front of the aircraft and were returned safely to the United Kingdom. The three casualties all jumped out of the rear of the aircraft.
Claim by Hptm Johannes Hager 6/NJG1 at 19:05. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1945 Part 5 - Theo Boiten)
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB688
s/n PB688
M
Avro
PB 688
Merlin
Known Units: 463 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB689
s/n PB689
Avro
PB 689
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB690
s/n PB690
Avro
PB 690
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB691
s/n PB691
Avro
PB 691
Merlin
Known Units: 97;189
To No. 189 Sqn from No. 97 Sqn Oct 1944. Missing on operation to Politz 21/22 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB692
s/n PB692
Avro
PB 692
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
To No. 626 then to No. 101 Sqn Oct 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Gelsenkirchen, Germany 6 Nov 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Arthur John Bate 2024-11-09 1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ian MacCallum Hamilton 2024-12-30 1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Phil Leeds 2024-12-30 1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Harold Kester Mainprize 2024-12-30 1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Walter Norman Moore 2024-12-30 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB693
s/n PB693
W
Avro
PB 693
Merlin
Known Units: 170 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB694
s/n PB694
T
Avro
PB 694
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB695
s/n PB695
Avro
PB 695
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB696
s/n PB696
V
Avro
PB 696
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB697
s/n PB697
O
Avro
PB 697
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB698
s/n PB698
Avro
PB 698
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB699
s/n PB699
Z
Avro
PB 699
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB700
s/n PB700
H
Avro
PB 700
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB701
s/n PB701
Q
Avro
PB 701
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB702
s/n PB702
G
Avro
PB 702
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB703
s/n PB703
O
Avro
PB 703
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn;100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB704
s/n PB704
R
Avro
PB 704
Merlin
Known Units: 170 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB705
s/n PB705
Avro
PB 705
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB706
s/n PB706
Avro
PB 706
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB707
s/n PB707
Avro
PB 707
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB708
s/n PB708
K
Avro
PB 708
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB721
s/n PB721
U
Avro
PB 721
Merlin
Known Units: 218 Sqn;115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB722
s/n PB722
B
Avro
PB 722
Merlin
Known Units: 300 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB723
s/n PB723
W
Avro
PB 723
Merlin
Known Units: 227
Delivered to No. 227 Sqn Oct 1944. Missing on operation to Gdynia (Gdansk) 18/19 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB724
s/n PB724
N
Avro
PB 724
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn;106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB725
s/n PB725
E
Avro
PB 725
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB726
s/n PB726
P
Avro
PB 726
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn;467 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB727
s/n PB727
Avro
PB 727
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB728
s/n PB728
W
Avro
PB 728
Merlin
Known Units: 170 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB729
s/n PB729
N
Avro
PB 729
Merlin
Known Units: 1660 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB730
s/n PB730
R
Avro
PB 730
Merlin
Known Units: 300 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB731
s/n PB731
Avro
PB 731
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB732
s/n PB732
K
Avro
PB 732
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB733
s/n PB733
Q
Avro
PB 733
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB734
s/n PB734
Avro
PB 734
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB735
s/n PB735
Avro
PB 735
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB736
s/n PB736
Avro
PB 736
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB737
s/n PB737
Avro
PB 737
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB738
s/n PB738
O
Avro
PB 738
Merlin
Known Units: 150 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB739
s/n PB739
T
Avro
PB 739
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB740
s/n PB740
Avro
PB 740
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB741
s/n PB741
Avro
PB 741
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB742
s/n PB742
Avro
PB 742
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB743
s/n PB743
Avro
PB 743
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB744
s/n PB744
U
Avro
PB 744
Merlin
Known Units: 189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB745
s/n PB745
Avro
PB 745
Merlin
Known Units: ;189
Delivered to No. 189 Sqn Nov 1944. Crashed and burnt on operation to Munich 27 Nov 1944. Robertson says aircraft crashed on return from operation. Mason says it crashed on take-off.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB746
s/n PB746
Avro
PB 746
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB747
s/n PB747
E
Avro
PB 747
Merlin
Known Units: 150 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB748
s/n PB748
Avro
PB 748
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB749
s/n PB749
Avro
PB 749
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB750
s/n PB750
Z
Avro
PB 750
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB751
s/n PB751
G
Avro
PB 751
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB752
s/n PB752
M
Avro
PB 752
Merlin
Known Units: 170 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB753
s/n PB753
X
Avro
PB 753
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB754
s/n PB754
Avro
PB 754
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB755
s/n PB755
Y
Avro
PB 755
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB756
s/n PB756
H
Avro
PB 756
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn;115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB757
s/n PB757
E
Avro
PB 757
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB758
s/n PB758
S
Avro
PB 758
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU;619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB759
s/n PB759
Avro
PB 759
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB760
s/n PB760
L
Avro
PB 760
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB761
s/n PB761
Avro
PB 761
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB762
s/n PB762
Avro
PB 762
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB763
s/n PB763
Avro
PB 763
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB764
s/n PB764
L
Avro
PB 764
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB765
s/n PB765
Avro
PB 765
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB766
s/n PB766
C
Avro
PB 766
Merlin
Known Units: 218 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB767
s/n PB767
T
Avro
PB 767
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB768
s/n PB768
B
Avro
PB 768
Merlin
Known Units: 218 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB780
s/n PB780
T
Avro
PB 780
Merlin
Known Units: 150 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB781
s/n PB781
V
Avro
PB 781
Merlin
Known Units: 150 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB782
s/n PB782
Avro
PB 782
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB783
s/n PB783
Avro
PB 783
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB784
s/n PB784
Avro
PB 784
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB785
s/n PB785
Avro
PB 785
Merlin
Known Units: 576
Delivered to No. 576 Sqn (UL-L2) Nov 1944. Mising on operation to Nuremberg 16/17 Mar 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-17 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Frank Edmond Dotten 2024-10-27 1945-March-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Stanley Marks Gibb 2024-05-26 1945-March-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Frederick Nicol 2024-06-22 1945-March-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Edward James Peverley 2024-06-22 1945-March-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donald Swallow Quinn 2024-06-22 1945-March-17 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Roland James Saundercook 2024-06-28 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB786
s/n PB786
D
Avro
PB 786
Merlin
Known Units: 153 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB787
s/n PB787
Avro
PB 787
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB788
s/n PB788
E
Avro
PB 788
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB789
s/n PB789
C
Avro
PB 789
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn;115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB790
s/n PB790
S
Avro
PB 790
Merlin
Known Units: 189 Sqn;189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB791
s/n PB791
Avro
PB 791
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB792
s/n PB792
Avro
PB 792
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB793
s/n PB793
X
Avro
PB 793
Merlin
Known Units: 189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB794
s/n PB794
A
Avro
PB 794
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB795
s/n PB795
V
Avro
PB 795
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB796
s/n PB796
Avro
PB 796
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB797
s/n PB797
K
Avro
PB 797
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB798
s/n PB798
G
Avro
PB 798
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB799
s/n PB799
Avro
PB 799
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB800
s/n PB800
N
Avro
PB 800
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB801
s/n PB801
Avro
PB 801
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB802
s/n PB802
F
Avro
PB 802
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB803
s/n PB803
Avro
PB 803
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB804
s/n PB804
Avro
PB 804
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB805
s/n PB805
Avro
PB 805
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB806
s/n PB806
Avro
PB 806
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB807
s/n PB807
H
Avro
PB 807
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
Delivered to No. 460 (Australian) Sqn (AR-H) Dec 1944. Missing on operation to Wiesbaden 2/3 Feb 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Wiesbaden Germany 1945-02-02 to 1945-02-02
460 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, Untied Kingdom
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft PB 807 was delivered to 460 Squadron in Dec 1944. The aircraft was on a night raid against Wiesbaden, Germany, when it crashed at Riedelbach, Germany. The cause of the crash is unknown. Casualties included RCAF Pilot Officer D.G. Russell (air gunner); RAAF Pilot Officer N.W. Everett (navigator), RAAF Flying Officer J. Macguire (pilot), and W/O D.B. May (wireless operator / air gunner); RAFVR Sgt's. R.B. Newton (flight engineer) and W.G. Potter (air gunner); and RAF Flt. Sgt. R.H. Whitecap (bomb aimer).Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB808
s/n PB808
Avro
PB 808
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB809
s/n PB809
F
Avro
PB 809
Merlin
Known Units: ASWDU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB810
s/n PB810
P
Avro
PB 810
Merlin
Known Units: 1659 HCU
Operated by No. 1659 Heavy Conversion Unit, 6 Group, RCAF, coded "RV*P".last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB811
s/n PB811
Avro
PB 811
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB812
s/n PB812
Avro
PB 812
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB813
s/n PB813
Avro
PB 813
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB814
s/n PB814
Avro
PB 814
Merlin
Known Units: 207
Delivered to No. 207 Sqn Nov 1944. Missing on operation to Gravenhorst 21/22 Feb 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB815
s/n PB815
Avro
PB 815
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB816
s/n PB816
Avro
PB 816
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB817
s/n PB817
Q
Avro
PB 817
Merlin
Known Units: 150 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB818
s/n PB818
X
Avro
PB 818
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn;44 Sqn;115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB819
s/n PB819
K
Avro
PB 819
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB820
s/n PB820
M
Avro
PB 820
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB821
s/n PB821
E
Avro
PB 821
Merlin
Known Units: CBE;50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB822
s/n PB822
Avro
PB 822
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB823
s/n PB823
Avro
PB 823
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB836
s/n PB836
Avro
PB 836
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB837
s/n PB837
T
Avro
PB 837
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB838
s/n PB838
Y
Avro
PB 838
Merlin
Known Units: 138 Sqn;138 Sqn;138 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB839
s/n PB839
Avro
PB 839
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB840
s/n PB840
Avro
PB 840
Merlin
Known Units: ;189
Delivered to No. 189 Sqn Nov 1944. Missing on operation to Karlsruhe 2/3 Feb 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB841
s/n PB841
Avro
PB 841
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB842
s/n PB842
Avro
PB 842
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB843
s/n PB843
Avro
PB 843
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB844
s/n PB844
N
Avro
PB 844
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB845
s/n PB845
Avro
PB 845
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB846
s/n PB846
Avro
PB 846
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB847
s/n PB847
Avro
PB 847
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB848
s/n PB848
Avro
PB 848
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB849
s/n PB849
S
Avro
PB 849
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB850
s/n PB850
Avro
PB 850
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB851
s/n PB851
S
Avro
PB 851
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB852
s/n PB852
Avro
PB 852
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB853
s/n PB853
P
Avro
PB 853
Merlin
Known Units: 150 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB854
s/n PB854
Avro
PB 854
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB855
s/n PB855
J
Avro
PB 855
Merlin
Known Units: 1656 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB856
s/n PB856
A
Avro
PB 856
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn;195 Sqn;35 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB857
s/n PB857
Avro
PB 857
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB858
s/n PB858
O
Avro
PB 858
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn;189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB859
s/n PB859
Avro
PB 859
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB860
s/n PB860
Avro
PB 860
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB861
s/n PB861
Avro
PB 861
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB862
s/n PB862
H
Avro
PB 862
Merlin
Known Units: 1660 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB863
s/n PB863
Avro
PB 863
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB864
s/n PB864
Avro
PB 864
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB865
s/n PB865
Avro
PB 865
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB866
s/n PB866
Avro
PB 866
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB867
s/n PB867
R
Avro
PB 867
Merlin
Known Units: 1660 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB868
s/n PB868
Avro
PB 868
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB869
s/n PB869
C
Avro
PB 869
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU;1667 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB870
s/n PB870
Avro
PB 870
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB871
s/n PB871
Avro
PB 871
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB872
s/n PB872
Avro
PB 872
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB873
s/n PB873
N
Avro
PB 873
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB874
s/n PB874
Avro
PB 874
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB875
s/n PB875
G
Avro
PB 875
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB876
s/n PB876
Avro
PB 876
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB877
s/n PB877
Z
Avro
PB 877
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB878
s/n PB878
Avro
PB 878
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB879
s/n PB879
Avro
PB 879
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB880
s/n PB880
B
Avro
PB 880
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
Delivered to No. 630 Sqn (LE-B). Aircraft crashed in Sweden on return from operation to Politz 13/14 Jan 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB881
s/n PB881
Avro
PB 881
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB891
s/n PB891
PB 891
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial PB892
s/n PB892
PB 892
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB893
s/n PB893
G
Avro
PB 893
Merlin
Known Units: 433 Sqn
Operated by No. 433 Squadron, RCAF, coded BM*G.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB894
s/n PB894
Avro
PB 894
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB895
s/n PB895
D
Avro
PB 895
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn;83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB896
s/n PB896
Y
Avro
PB 896
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB897
s/n PB897
B
Avro
PB 897
Merlin
Known Units: 424 Sqn
Operated by No. 424 Squadron, RCAF, coded QB*B.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB898
s/n PB898
Avro
PB 898
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB899
s/n PB899
A
Avro
PB 899
Merlin
Known Units: 424 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Minelaying Bay of Pomerania 1945-02-14 to 1945-02-15
424 (B) Sqn (RCAF) Skipton-on-Swale
424 Tiger Squadron (Castigandos Castigamus) RAF Skipton-on-Swale. Lancaster BIII aircraft PB 800 QB-A and crew were lost without a trace while on a GARDENING (sea-mining) operation over the Bay of Pomerania in the Baltic Sea. No cause of loss or crash location was determined at the time but later research found a night fighter claim in the "Nightfighter War Diaries" Volume 2 by Dr Theo Boiten and Roderick MacKenzie for this aircraft from Oblt Herbert Koch of 1/NGJ 3
Flight Lieutenant FC Aldworth (RCAF), Pilot Officer GS Guthrie (RCAF), Pilot Officer KA Miller (RCAF), Flight Sergeant KC McMurchy (RCAF), Flying Officer EE Reaney (RCAF), Pilot Officer V Smith (RCAF) and Pilot Officer LF Davis (RAFVR) were all missing, presumed killed in action
The missing have no known grave and all are commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial
On 1945-02-14, Squadron Leader A. Ross Dawson, the Chief Technical Officer with 424/433 Sqds at Skipton on Swale, wrote in his diary: "Well as I expected the target last night was in direct aid of the Russians. Dresden got a real pounding apparently with a big follow-up attack by the Americans. Apparently these are some of the tactics decided upon at the "Big Three" conference a week ago in the Crimea between Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin. Today we got 4 away on bombing from 424. Chemintz near Dresden was the target . . . 424 had one early return with duff H2S & we also lost "A" of 424 [PB899] - Flight Lieutenant Aldworth who failed to show up."
Diary of A Ross Dawson, courtesy CWM [Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...
424 Squadron Lancaster I PB899 QB-A Fl/Lt Aldworth Oblt Herbert...
1945-February-15 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Frank Carter Aldworth 2023-03-31 1945-February-15 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer Lawrence Fortnam Davis 2024-09-29 1945-February-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer George Scott Guthrie 2023-03-31 1945-February-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Kenneth Cameron McMurchy 2023-03-31 1945-February-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander Miller 2023-03-31 1945-February-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Elias Eldon Reaney 2023-03-31 1945-February-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley (Babe) Smith 2023-03-31 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB900
s/n PB900
Avro
PB 900
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB901
s/n PB901
Avro
PB 901
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB902
s/n PB902
Avro
PB 902
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB903
s/n PB903
F
Avro
PB 903
Merlin
Known Units: 433 Sqn
Operated by No. 433 Squadron, RCAF, coded BM*F. Used on operations in 1945. Failed to return from operation over Leipzig on 10 April 1945, probably brought down by flak over the target.last update: 2025-February-05
1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert James Grisdale 2024-04-13 1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Michael Hirak 2024-04-21 1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Gordon McLeod 2024-04-22 1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer David William Roberts 2024-05-01 1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Francis Gerald Seeley 2024-05-01 1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Isaac Buck Zierler 2024-05-01 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB904
s/n PB904
Avro
PB 904
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB905
s/n PB905
K
Avro
PB 905
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB906
s/n PB906
Avro
PB 906
Merlin
Known Units: 514
Delivered to No. 514 Sqn form No. 32 MU Jan 1945. Missing on operation to Wanne-Eickel16/17 Jan 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB907
s/n PB907
O
Avro
PB 907
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn;115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB908
s/n PB908
C
Avro
PB 908
Merlin
Known Units: 433 Sqn
Operated by No. 433 Squadron, RCAF, coded BM*C.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB909
s/n PB909
Avro
PB 909
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB910
s/n PB910
B
Avro
PB 910
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB911
s/n PB911
A
Avro
PB 911
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB912
s/n PB912
Avro
PB 912
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB913
s/n PB913
D
Avro
PB 913
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB914
s/n PB914
W
Avro
PB 914
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB915
s/n PB915
M
Avro
PB 915
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB916
s/n PB916
C
Avro
PB 916
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB917
s/n PB917
Avro
PB 917
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB918
s/n PB918
C
Avro
PB 918
Merlin
Known Units: BCIS
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB919
s/n PB919
Avro
PB 919
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB920
s/n PB920
F
Avro
PB 920
Merlin
Known Units: CBE
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB921
s/n PB921
Avro
PB 921
Merlin
Known Units: ;635
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB922
s/n PB922
U
Avro
PB 922
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB923
s/n PB923
Avro
PB 923
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB924
s/n PB924
Avro
PB 924
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB925
s/n PB925
N
Avro
PB 925
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB926
s/n PB926
Avro
PB 926
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB927
s/n PB927
X
Avro
PB 927
Merlin
Known Units: CBE;635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB928
s/n PB928
J
Avro
PB 928
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB929
s/n PB929
Y
Avro
PB 929
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB930
s/n PB930
Avro
PB 930
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB931
s/n PB931
W
Avro
PB 931
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB932
s/n PB932
Avro
PB 932
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB933
s/n PB933
N
Avro
PB 933
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB934
s/n PB934
O
Avro
PB 934
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB935
s/n PB935
Z
Avro
PB 935
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB936
s/n PB936
B
Avro
PB 936
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB949
s/n PB949
T
Avro
PB 949
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB950
s/n PB950
Avro
PB 950
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB951
s/n PB951
Avro
PB 951
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB952
s/n PB952
Avro
PB 952
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB953
s/n PB953
R
Avro
PB 953
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn;156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB954
s/n PB954
P
Avro
PB 954
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB955
s/n PB955
F
Avro
PB 955
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB956
s/n PB956
N
Avro
PB 956
Merlin
Known Units: CBE;582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB957
s/n PB957
Avro
PB 957
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB958
s/n PB958
Avro
PB 958
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB959
s/n PB959
M
Avro
PB 959
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB960
s/n PB960
Avro
PB 960
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB961
s/n PB961
Q
Avro
PB 961
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB962
s/n PB962
G
Avro
PB 962
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB963
s/n PB963
J
Avro
PB 963
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB964
s/n PB964
Q
Avro
PB 964
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB965
s/n PB965
L
Avro
PB 965
Merlin
Known Units: 582 Sqn;582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB966
s/n PB966
H
Avro
PB 966
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB967
s/n PB967
Q
Avro
PB 967
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB968
s/n PB968
Avro
PB 968
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB969
s/n PB969
Z
Avro
PB 969
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB970
s/n PB970
C
Avro
PB 970
Merlin
Known Units: CBE;582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB971
s/n PB971
T
Avro
PB 971
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB972
s/n PB972
Avro
PB 972
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB973
s/n PB973
L
Avro
PB 973
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB974
s/n PB974
Avro
PB 974
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB975
s/n PB975
S
Avro
PB 975
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB976
s/n PB976
T
Avro
PB 976
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;582 Sqn;582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB977
s/n PB977
U
Avro
PB 977
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB978
s/n PB978
I
Avro
PB 978
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB979
s/n PB979
I
Avro
PB 979
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB980
s/n PB980
M
Avro
PB 980
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB981
s/n PB981
Avro
PB 981
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB982
s/n PB982
Avro
PB 982
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB983
s/n PB983
A
Avro
PB 983
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn;582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB984
s/n PB984
Avro
PB 984
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB985
s/n PB985
Avro
PB 985
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB986
s/n PB986
G
Avro
PB 986
Merlin
Known Units: BCIS
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB987
s/n PB987
Avro
PB 987
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB988
s/n PB988
Avro
PB 988
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB989
s/n PB989
Avro
PB 989
Merlin
Known Units:
Operated by No. 424 Squadron, RCAF, coded QB*A.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB990
s/n PB990
Avro
PB 990
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB991
s/n PB991
H
Avro
PB 991
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB992
s/n PB992
Avro
PB 992
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB993
s/n PB993
Avro
PB 993
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial PB994
s/n PB994
F
Avro
PB 994
Merlin
Known Units: CBE
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial PB995
s/n PB995
Avro
PB 995
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial PB996
s/n PB996
C
Avro
PB 996
Merlin
Known Units: 617 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial PB997
s/n PB997
E
Avro
PB 997
Merlin
Known Units: 617 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial PB998
s/n PB998
D
Avro
PB 998
Merlin
Known Units: 617 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06