Lancaster (Total: 7,377, Canadian: 409, Group 407)
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
Wikipedia
Harold A Skaarup Web PageLancaster Mk.I serial W4102
s/n W4102
Avro
W 4102
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4103
s/n W4103
S
Avro
W 4103
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
Delivered to No. 83 Sqn Jul 1942. After a txiing accident, it was repaired and transferred to No. 1668 CU, and from there to No. 5 Lancaster Finishing School. There it collided with Oxford LB 414 and crashed near Syerston 14 Apr 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4104
s/n W4104
Avro
W 4104
Merlin
Known Units: ;83
First delivered to No. 49 Sqn. Transferred to No. 83 Sqn (OL-A). Missing on operation to Dusseldorf 10/11 Sep 1942. 68 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4105
s/n W4105
K
Avro
W 4105
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
With No. 44 Sqn (KM-Y) Jul-Aug 1942. Missing on Operation to Frankfurt 24/25 Aug 1942. 50 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4106
s/n W4106
T
Avro
W 4106
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4107
s/n W4107
Avro
W 4107
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4108
s/n W4108
B
Avro
W 4108
Merlin
Known Units: 1654 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4109
s/n W4109
Avro
W 4109
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4110
s/n W4110
K
Avro
W 4110
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4111
s/n W4111
Avro
W 4111
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
To No. 61 Sqn. Spent some time in 1942 on maritime reconnaissance. Missing on operation to Dusseldorf 10/11 Sep 1942. 65 Operational hourslast update: 2025-February-05
1942-September-10 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Lawrence Blair 2024-11-12 1942-September-10 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Frank Wilfred Kidson 2025-01-23 1942-September-10 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Albert Benjamin McLellan 2025-01-23 1942-September-10 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Louis Poch 2025-01-23 1942-September-10 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant James Harold Boston Woolgar 2025-01-23 Lancaster Mk.I serial W4112
s/n W4112
L
Avro
W 4112
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4113
s/n W4113
O
Avro
W 4113
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU;1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4114
s/n W4114
T
Avro
W 4114
Merlin
Known Units: 1660 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4115
s/n W4115
Avro
W 4115
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4116
s/n W4116
Avro
W 4116
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4117
s/n W4117
R
Avro
W 4117
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4118
s/n W4118
Z
Avro
W 4118
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
Delivered to No. 106 Sqn (ZN-Z) 6 Aug 1942. This aircraft, named "Admiral Prune" was used by the then squadron commander W/C Guy Gibson on a number of operations, including the daylight raid on Le Creusot on 17 Oct 1942. It was lost on operations to Turin, 4/5 Feb 1943. 340 operational hours. It was replaced by Lancaster ED 593 "Admiral Prune II", which ended the war as an instructional airframe.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4119
s/n W4119
Q
Avro
W 4119
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4120
s/n W4120
L
Avro
W 4120
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
Delivered to No. 39 MU then to No. 207 Sqn (EM-L) Oct 1942. Missing on operation to Munchen-Gladbach 30/31 Aug 1943. 343 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4121
s/n W4121
Avro
W 4121
Merlin
Known Units: 207
Delivered to No.207 Sqn from No. 39 MU Oct 1942. Missing on daylight operation to Milan 24 Oct 1942. 8 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4122
s/n W4122
W
Avro
W 4122
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4123
s/n W4123
Avro
W 4123
Merlin
Known Units: 83;576
Delivered to No. 83 Sqn (OL-P, changed to OL-N) Aug 1942, then to Navigation Training Unit (NTU) then to No. 576 Sqn (UL-R2). Missing on operation to Berlin 2/3 Dec 1943. 318 operational hours. This was No. 576 Sqn's first Lancaster operation.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4124
s/n W4124
D
Avro
W 4124
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4125
s/n W4125
Avro
W 4125
Merlin
Known Units: 44
Delivered to No. 44 Sqn (KM-J, later KM-W) Aug 1942. Missing on operation to Munich, 21/22 Dec 1942. 140 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4126
s/n W4126
B
Avro
W 4126
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
With No. 44 Sqn Conversion Flight, then to the Sqn as KM-G Aug 1942, later KM-B. Missing on operation to Nienburg 17/18 Dec 1942.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4127
s/n W4127
D
Avro
W 4127
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
Originally with No. 97 Sqn Conversion Flight, then to No. 1660 Conversion Unit, then to No. 619 Sqn (PG-D). Missing on operation to La Chapelle, 20/21 April 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4128
s/n W4128
Avro
W 4128
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4129
s/n W4129
R
Avro
W 4129
Merlin
Known Units: ;207
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4130
s/n W4130
Avro
W 4130
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
Delivered to No. 207 Sqn. Sep 1942. Transferred to No. 57 Sqn. Missing on operation to Cologne 15/16 Oct 1942. This was No. 57 Sqn's first Lancaster loss. 54 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4131
s/n W4131
Avro
W 4131
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4132
s/n W4132
N
Avro
W 4132
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4133
s/n W4133
Z
Avro
W 4133
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4134
s/n W4134
U
Avro
W 4134
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
Claim by Oblt Manfred Meurer 3/NJG1 - 3 km. South East Roermond: 4.000m at 20.23. Crashed between Asselt (Limburg) and Roermond Holland.
last update: 2025-February-05Lancaster Mk.I serial W4135
s/n W4135
Q
Avro
W 4135
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
Delivered to No. 50 Sqn (VN-Q) Aug 1942, then to No. 44 Sqn Dec 1942 (no raids flown), then to No. 97 Sqn (OF-A) Jan 1943. Missing on operation to Dusseldorf 27/28 Jan 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4136
s/n W4136
Avro
W 4136
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4137
s/n W4137
L
Avro
W 4137
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4138
s/n W4138
U
Avro
W 4138
Merlin
Known Units: 1654 CU
First with No. 83 Sqn Conversion Flight, then to No. 1654 CU. Missing on operation to Essen 16/17 Sep 1942. 42 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4139
s/n W4139
V
Avro
W 4139
Merlin
Known Units: 97
Delivered to No. 97 Sqn 18 Aug 1942. Missing on operation to Kassel 27/28 Aug 1942. 9 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4140
s/n W4140
Avro
W 4140
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
With No. 49 Sqn Conversion Flight, then to No. 156 Sqn. Lost on mission to Duisburg 26/27 Apr 1943. 64 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4154
s/n W4154
Avro
W 4154
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4155
s/n W4155
D
Avro
W 4155
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4156
s/n W4156
Avro
W 4156
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4157
s/n W4157
V
Avro
W 4157
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
With No. 9 Sqn (WS-V, later WS-U). Missing on operation to Berlin 17/18 Jan 1943. Flew 30 operations, 258 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4158
s/n W4158
S
Avro
W 4158
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn;9 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4159
s/n W4159
Y
Avro
W 4159
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
Claim by Oblt Ludwig Becker 12/NJG1 - Hackfort 7 km. South East of Zutphen: 800-1,000m at 19:23. Crashed at Hackfort West of Vorden. Pilot: R/102678 WOII Alan Dick Foote RCAF - Vorden General Cemetery Collective Grave 5-6.
last update: 2025-February-05Lancaster Mk.I serial W4160
s/n W4160
Avro
W 4160
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4161
s/n W4161
J
Avro
W 4161
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4162
s/n W4162
Avro
W 4162
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4163
s/n W4163
N
Avro
W 4163
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4164
s/n W4164
Q
Avro
W 4164
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4165
s/n W4165
Avro
W 4165
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4166
s/n W4166
Avro
W 4166
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
Delivered to No. 61 Sqn 31 Aug 1942. Missing on operation to Munich 19/20 Sep 1942. 23 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4167
s/n W4167
Avro
W 4167
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4168
s/n W4168
Avro
W 4168
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4169
s/n W4169
S
Avro
W 4169
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
Delivered to No. 44 Sqn (KM-S) Sept 1942. Missing on operation to Bremen 13/14 Sep 1942. 19 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4170
s/n W4170
K
Avro
W 4170
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4171
s/n W4171
J
Avro
W 4171
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4172
s/n W4172
X
Avro
W 4172
Merlin
Known Units: ;207
last update: 2025-June-27
Bombing Munich Germany 1943-03-10 to 1943-03-10
207 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Langar
Battle of the Ruhr
264 aircraft - 142 Lancasters, 81 Halifaxes, 41 Stirlings. 8 aircraft - 5 Lancasters, 2 Halifaxes, I Stirling - lost, 3.0 per cent of the force.
The wind caused this raid to be concentrated on the western half of Munich rather than on the centre of the city, but much damage was caused. 291 buildings were destroyed, 660 severely damaged and 2,134 less seriously damaged; these included many public buildings - I I hospitals, the cathedral, 4 churches and 14 'cultural' buildings for example - but also 3 wholesale and 22 retail business premises were completely destroyed and no less than 294 military buildings were hit, including the headquarters of the local Flak brigade, which was burnt out. The most serious industrial damage was at the B.M.W. factory where the aero-engine assembly shop was put out of action for 6 weeks. Many other industrial concerns were hit, including 141 small, back-street-type workshops which were destroyed.
The detailed Munich reports show that 208 people were killed and 425 injured. The dead included: 2 party officials on duty, IO soldiers, I Hitler Youth boy serving at a Flak site, 2 policemen and 4 foreigners. The local Flak fired 14,234 rounds of ammunition - 2,314 of 105 mm, 8,328 of 88 mm, 3,592 of 20 mm - and 7 night fighters were reported as being on duty in the Munich area but only 1 bomber, unidentified because of its explosion in the air, was shot down over the city. source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Lancaster W4172 was attacked by a Fw190 night-fighter and a JU 88. Shot down by Ofw. Reinhard Kollak of the 7./NJG 4, flying Bf 110 F-4 3C+LR from Juvincourt airfield.and crashed 01:59 10 Mar 1943 near Lavannes (Marne) 12 km NE of Reims France.Having taken off from Langar 2041, 9 Mar 1943 .Both Brown and Brownhill say they were shot down after leaving the target: Brown says "while we were over Saarbrucken one of the engines caught fire and almost immediately afterwards we were attacked by a fighter.". Brownhill says "we were attacked by night fighters and the aircraft was set on fire."
1943-March-10 Evader RAF Sergeant Richard Brown 2024-05-14 1943-March-10 Evader RAF Warrant Officer 1 Gordon Isaiah Brownhill 2024-11-22 1943-March-10 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2 William Garvey Lishman 2025-03-16 1943-March-10 KIA RAFVR Sergeant George Sydney Margetson 2024-05-14 1943-March-10 KIA RAFVR Sergeant George Mortimore 2024-05-14 1943-March-10 KIA RAFAAF Sergeant Richard Hall Warren 2024-05-04 1943-March-10 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Ivor Wood 2024-05-04 
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4173
s/n W4173
Avro
W 4173
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4174
s/n W4174
P
Avro
W 4174
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4175
s/n W4175
Avro
W 4175
Merlin
Known Units: ;97
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4176
s/n W4176
X
Avro
W 4176
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4177
s/n W4177
W
Avro
W 4177
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4178
s/n W4178
Avro
W 4178
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4179
s/n W4179
Avro
W 4179
Merlin
Known Units: 106
With No. 106 Sqn. Missing on operation to Essen 16/17 Sep 1942. 15 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4180
s/n W4180
D
Avro
W 4180
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4181
s/n W4181
Q
Avro
W 4181
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4182
s/n W4182
B
Avro
W 4182
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4183
s/n W4183
Avro
W 4183
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4184
s/n W4184
A
Avro
W 4184
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
Delivered to No. 9 Sqn (WS-A) Sep 1942. Was missing on first operation, to Munich, 19/20 Sep 1942.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4185
s/n W4185
G
Avro
W 4185
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
1942-December-21 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Jack Hilton Baker 2024-11-05 1942-December-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Guy Clarkson 2024-02-29 1942-December-21 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Frederick Edwards 2025-05-25 1942-December-21 KIA RAF Pilot Officer Edward Fenwicke-Clennell 2022-05-20 1942-December-21 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer John Alexander Wilson Moffat 2022-05-20 1942-December-21 PoW RAF Sergeant Peter Myram Slater 2022-05-20 1942-December-21 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Jack Passmore Warren 2022-05-20 Lancaster Mk.I serial W4186
s/n W4186
Avro
W 4186
Merlin
Known Units: 9
Delivered to No. 9 Sqn 10 Sep 1942. Missing on operation to Essen 16/17 Sep 1942 8 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4187
s/n W4187
S
Avro
W 4187
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
Delivered to No. 44 Sqn (KM-S) Sep 1942. Missing on operation to Wismar, Germany 1/2 Oct 1942. 50 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4188
s/n W4188
G
Avro
W 4188
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4189
s/n W4189
Avro
W 4189
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4190
s/n W4190
A
Avro
W 4190
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4191
s/n W4191
Avro
W 4191
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4192
s/n W4192
E
Avro
W 4192
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4193
s/n W4193
A
Avro
W 4193
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4194
s/n W4194
Avro
W 4194
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4195
s/n W4195
Avro
W 4195
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
Delivered to No. 106 Sqn 13 Sep 1942. Missing on mission to Cologne 15/16 Oct 1942. 61 Operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4196
s/n W4196
Avro
W 4196
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4197
s/n W4197
J
Avro
W 4197
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4198
s/n W4198
L
Avro
W 4198
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn;61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4199
s/n W4199
H
Avro
W 4199
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4200
s/n W4200
U
Avro
W 4200
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4201
s/n W4201
Avro
W 4201
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster serial W4213
s/n W4213
P
W 4213
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4230
s/n W4230
P
Avro
W 4230
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4231
s/n W4231
U
Avro
W 4231
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4232
s/n W4232
B
Avro
W 4232
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4233
s/n W4233
Avro
W 4233
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
last update: 2025-June-27
Bombing Kiel Germany 1942-10-13 to 1942-10-14
61 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Syerston
61 Squadron (Per Puram Tunantes) RAF Syerston. Returning over England from an operation against targets in Kiel, Germany, the flak-damaged Lancaster BI aircraft W 4233 became lost in poor weather conditions. While trying to determine it's position, the Lancaster crashed into high ground fifteen miles north-east of Thirsk, at Bilsdale, East Moor, Yorkshire
Navigator, Pilot Officer L C R Leach (RCAF) and Bomb Aimer, Sergeant R Court (RAFVR) were killed in action. The Pilot, Flight Sergeant H E Game (RAF) was severely injured and died of his injuries in hospital 1942-10-15
The rest of the crew, Flight Engineer, Sergeant H Scattergood (RAF), Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, Sergeant L S J Hamblett (RAF), Mid-Upper Air Gunner, Sergeant E C Hawkins (RAF), and Rear Air Gunner, Sergeant E T Lund (RAFVR) all survived the crash with injuries
Sergeant Lund is believed to have walked to a farm house to get help despite having suffered two broken ankles in the crash
1942-October-14 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Ronald Court 2024-05-04 1942-October-14 KIA RAF Flight Sergeant Henry Ernest Game 2023-11-04 1942-October-14 Survived RAF Sergeant Lawrence Sidney James Hamblett 2023-11-04 1942-October-14 Survived RAF Sergeant Ernest Charles Hawkins 2023-11-04 1942-October-14 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Leonard Charles Robert Leach 2023-11-04 1942-October-14 Survived RAFVR Sergeant Edmund Thornley Lund 2023-11-04 1942-October-14 Survived RAF Sergeant Harry Scattergood 2023-11-04 Lancaster Mk.I serial W4234
s/n W4234
Avro
W 4234
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4235
s/n W4235
C
Avro
W 4235
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4236
s/n W4236
K
Avro
W 4236
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
Delivered to No. 61 Sqn. (QR-K) Sep 1942. Missing on operation to Mannheim 9/10 Aug 1943. 640 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4237
s/n W4237
W
Avro
W 4237
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4238
s/n W4238
Avro
W 4238
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4239
s/n W4239
T
Avro
W 4239
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4240
s/n W4240
Avro
W 4240
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4241
s/n W4241
Q
Avro
W 4241
Merlin
Known Units: 1662 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4242
s/n W4242
A
Avro
W 4242
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4243
s/n W4243
Avro
W 4243
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4244
s/n W4244
F
Avro
W 4244
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4245
s/n W4245
Avro
W 4245
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4246
s/n W4246
Avro
W 4246
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4247
s/n W4247
S
Avro
W 4247
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4248
s/n W4248
A
Avro
W 4248
Merlin
Known Units: 3 LFS;622 Sqn;622 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4249
s/n W4249
M
Avro
W 4249
Merlin
Known Units: 3 LFS;1661 HCU;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4250
s/n W4250
Avro
W 4250
Merlin
Known Units: 57
With No.57 Sqn. Aircraft crashed at Woodhall Spa on return from operation to Turin 9/10 Dec 1942.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4251
s/n W4251
Avro
W 4251
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4252
s/n W4252
Avro
W 4252
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4253
s/n W4253
W
Avro
W 4253
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4254
s/n W4254
P
Avro
W 4254
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4255
s/n W4255
Avro
W 4255
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4256
s/n W4256
Avro
W 4256
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4257
s/n W4257
Avro
W 4257
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4258
s/n W4258
U
Avro
W 4258
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4259
s/n W4259
P
Avro
W 4259
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
With no. 44 Sqn Conversion Unit, then to the squadron (KM-P) Oct 1942. Shortly after take-off on operation to Duisburg 20 Dec 1942 the aircraft collided with Lancaster W 4182 and crashed: all the crew were killed.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4260
s/n W4260
O
Avro
W 4260
Merlin
Known Units: 1654 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4261
s/n W4261
Avro
W 4261
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
Flew with No. 106 Sqn. Included daylight operations to Le Creusot and Italian targets. Missing from a raid on Essen on 13/14 Jan 1943. On a trip to Genoa 13/14 Nov 1942, Flight Sergeant M. A. Phair lost 2 engines over the target but flew back over the Alps on the other two and made an emergency landing at Thorney Island.last update: 2025-February-05
1943-January-13 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Joseph Aleo 2024-10-17 1943-January-13 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Duncan Hugh Alexander Dewar 2024-10-17
1943-January-13 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Maurice Andrew Phair 2024-10-17 1943-January-13 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 James Edward Quinn 2024-10-17 1943-January-13 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Russell C Zavitz 2024-10-17 Lancaster Mk.I serial W4262
s/n W4262
Avro
W 4262
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4263
s/n W4263
Avro
W 4263
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4264
s/n W4264
Avro
W 4264
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4265
s/n W4265
V
Avro
W 4265
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn;106 Sqn
Delivered to No. 9 Sqn (WS-L) Oct 1942. Crashed as a result of collision with Lancaster R 5916 at Waddington on return from sortie to Genoa 7/8 Nov 1942.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4266
s/n W4266
S
Avro
W 4266
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn;50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4267
s/n W4267
Avro
W 4267
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
Discrepancy at date of crash: CASPIR & RAF Commands list 57 Squadron, Lancaster File reference text lists 44 Squadron.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4268
s/n W4268
Q
Avro
W 4268
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4269
s/n W4269
G
Avro
W 4269
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
To No. 61 Sqn Oct 1942. Missing on Operation to Duisburg 12/13 May 1943. 430 Operational hourslast update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Duisburg Germany 1943-05-12 to 1943-05-13
61 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Syerston
From ORB:
Fourteen aircraft were ordered from the Squadron for operations against Duisburg, Thirteen aircraft attacked the target from heights varying from 16,500 to 21,000 feet bombing the TI [Target Indicator] markers. Several large explosions were seen. The defences were rather spasmodic. Photographs were taken which revealed fires and slight ground detail together with gun flashes. One aircraft failed to return [W4269].
Hit by Flak and crashed 0206 into the Zuiderzeepark at Amsterdam where all were originally buried.
Additional Crew not Canadian, all RAF, all Killed in Action:
- Pilot - Flight Sergeant Peter Henry Alderton
- Flight Engineer - Sergeant Sydney Lupton
- Navigator - Sergeant Robert Edward Sloan
- Air Gunner - Sergeant John Thomas
- Air Gunner - Sergeant Charles Douglas Whitehall
May 12-13 1943 ORB SummaryLancaster Mk.I serial W4270
s/n W4270
Avro
W 4270
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
Delivered to No. 61 Sqn October 1942. Crashed in flames on a training flight 18 Feb 1943. 196 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4271
s/n W4271
O
Avro
W 4271
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU;1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4272
s/n W4272
G
Avro
W 4272
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn;1654 HCU
Started with No. 61 Sqn Conversion Flight, then No. 1654 Conversion Unit. Transferred to No. 15 Sqn (LS-P), then to No. 622 Sqn (GI-C). Missing from raid to Berlin 15/16 Feb 1944. 280 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Berlin Germany 1944-02-15 to 1944-02-15
622 (B) Sqn (RAF) Mildenhall
Battle of Berlin
After a rest of more than 2 weeks for the regular bomber squadrons, 891 aircraft - 561 Lancasters, 314 Halifaxes, 16 Mosquitoes -were dispatched. This was the largest force sent to Berlin and the largest non-1,000 bomber force sent to any target, exceeding the previous record of 826 aircraft (which included Stirlings and Wellings tons) sent to Dortmund on the night of 23/24 May 1943. It was also the first time that more than 500 Lancasters and more than 300 Halifaxes were dispatched. The quantity of bombs dropped, 2,642 tons, was also a record.
The German controllers were able to plot the bomber stream soon after it left the English coast but the swing north over Denmark for the approach flight proved too far distant for many of the German fighters. The German controller ordered the fighters not to fly over Berlin, leaving the target area free for the Flak, but mapy fighters ignored him and attacked bombers over the city. The diversion to Frankfurt¬on-Oder failed to draw any fighters: 43 aircraft - 26 Lancasters, 17 Halifaxes - were lost, 4·8 per cent of the force.
Berlin was covered by cloud for most of the raid. Heavy bombing fell on the centre and south-western districts but many places out in the country again re-corded bombs, with 59 people being killed there. Damage in Berlin was extensive with 599 large and 572 medium fires and nearly 1,000 houses and 526 temporary wooden barracks, of which there were now a large number in Berlin, destroyed. Some of Berlin's most important war industries were hit, including the large Sie-mensstadt area. 320 people were killed - 196 civilians, 34 service personnel, 9 air-raid workers, 80 foreign workers and 1 prisoner of war. The diminishing proportion of civilian casualties reflects the large-scale evacuation which had now taken place but a further 260 civilians were recorded as being 'buried alive' and it is not known how many of these survived,
This was really the end of the true 'Battle of Berlin'; only one more raid tool pince on the city in this period and that was not for more than a month.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
1944-February-15 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Basil John Allen 2024-11-02 1944-February-15 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Clifford Althea Brown 2025-03-08 1944-February-15 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Frank Edward Walter Chapman 2024-01-30
1944-February-15 KIA RAAF Trevor Llewellyn Griffiths 2025-03-08 1944-February-15 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John William Griffiths 2025-03-08 1944-February-15 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Harold Morral 2025-03-08 1944-February-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Clifton Taylor 2025-03-08 1944-February-15 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Phillip William Wright 2025-03-08 Lancaster Mk.I serial W4273
s/n W4273
Avro
W 4273
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4274
s/n W4274
B
Avro
W 4274
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4275
s/n W4275
Avro
W 4275
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4276
s/n W4276
Avro
W 4276
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4277
s/n W4277
S
Avro
W 4277
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
Delivered to No. 44 Sqn (KM-S) Oct 1942. Missing on Gardening sortie 8/9 Jan 1943. 145 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Minelaying Oresund Sweden (Daffodil) 1943-01-09 to 1943-01-09
(B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Waddington
44 Rhodesia Squadron (Fulmina Regis lusta). Lancaster aircraft W 4277 lost to enemy action whilst laying mines off the Danish Coast..
Claim by Fw Ernst Baader 4/NJG3 - 8674 B1 in See: 2,700m at 21:10
Crashed Sost Skov (Forest) near Rise-Hjarup 3 km NNW of Aabenraa Denmark
Six RAF members of the crew, Flying Officer A.G. Cameron, Sergeants A.R.A. Colonna, J. Hutchison, J.H. Lightfoot, D.B. Mogg, and S. Wright were also killed.
Source of Personnel and grave marker images via "Airwar over Denmark" (http://www.flensted.eu.com/19430001.shtml)
1943-January-09 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer Andrew Greenhill Cameron 2025-02-04 1943-January-09 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Adriano Alfred Robert Colonna 2025-02-04 1943-January-09 KIA RAF Sergeant Jonathan Hutchinson 2025-02-04 1943-January-09 KIA RAF Sergeant John Henry Lightfoot 2025-02-04 1943-January-09 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Mogg,Dennis Bryant Mogg 2025-02-04 1943-January-09 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Milton James Paige 2025-02-04 1943-January-09 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Sydney Wright 2025-02-04 Lancaster Mk.I serial W4278
s/n W4278
Avro
W 4278
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4279
s/n W4279
Z
Avro
W 4279
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn;61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4301
s/n W4301
Avro
W 4301
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4302
s/n W4302
Avro
W 4302
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4303
s/n W4303
D
Avro
W 4303
Merlin
Known Units: 1654 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4304
s/n W4304
C
Avro
W 4304
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
Delivered to No. 44 Sqn (KM-C) Oct 1942. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 22/23 Nov 1942. 55 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4305
s/n W4305
G
Avro
W 4305
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
Delivered to No. 44 Sqn (KM-J, later KM-G) Oct 1942. Missing on operation to Pilzen, Czechoslovakia, 13/14 May 1943. 272 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4306
s/n W4306
Avro
W 4306
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4307
s/n W4307
O
Avro
W 4307
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn (DX-O) 12 Oct 1942. Missing on operation to Hamburg 9/10 Nov 1942. 44 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4308
s/n W4308
C
Avro
W 4308
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4309
s/n W4309
Avro
W 4309
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4310
s/n W4310
Avro
W 4310
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4311
s/n W4311
Avro
W 4311
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4312
s/n W4312
Avro
W 4312
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4313
s/n W4313
Avro
W 4313
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4314
s/n W4314
Avro
W 4314
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4315
s/n W4315
Avro
W 4315
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4316
s/n W4316
Q
Avro
W 4316
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Bombing Bochum Germany 1943-06-13 to 1943-06-13
460 () Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). While on a mission to Bochum, Germany, Lancaster W 4316 was shot down by a night fighter. RCAF Sgt. J.C. Cornish (air gunner) was taken Prisoner of War. Casualties included RAAF Flt. Sgt's. A. Gordon (air gunner) and D.C.P. Lundie (navigator); RAF Sgt's. R.O. Vaughan (pilot), L.F.C. Day (flight engineer), and D.A. Thomas (wireless operator / air gunner); and RAF Flying Officer C.W.R. Young (bomb aimer).Lancaster Mk.I serial W4317
s/n W4317
Avro
W 4317
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4318
s/n W4318
Avro
W 4318
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4319
s/n W4319
N
Avro
W 4319
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4320
s/n W4320
Avro
W 4320
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4321
s/n W4321
Avro
W 4321
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4322
s/n W4322
O
Avro
W 4322
Merlin
Known Units: 101;460;101
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-O) and flew on the squadron's first Lancaster operation, to Turin 20/21 Nov 1942. It was briefly seconded to No. 460 (Australian) Sqn, but no operations were flown. Returned to No. 101 Sqn (SR-O) and continued operations Feb 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 27/28 Mar 1943. 142 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4323
s/n W4323
Avro
W 4323
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4324
s/n W4324
Avro
W 4324
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4325
s/n W4325
C
Avro
W 4325
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4326
s/n W4326
Avro
W 4326
Merlin
Known Units: 101
Deliverrd to No. 101 Sqn Oct 1942. Crashed on 16 Nov 1942 28 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4327
s/n W4327
S
Avro
W 4327
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4328
s/n W4328
Avro
W 4328
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4329
s/n W4329
Avro
W 4329
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4330
s/n W4330
Avro
W 4330
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4331
s/n W4331
Avro
W 4331
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4332
s/n W4332
Avro
W 4332
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4333
s/n W4333
Avro
W 4333
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4334
s/n W4334
Avro
W 4334
Merlin
Known Units: 103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn Oct 1942. Missing on operation to Duisburg 20/21 Dec 1942. 49 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4335
s/n W4335
Avro
W 4335
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4336
s/n W4336
Avro
W 4336
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4337
s/n W4337
K
Avro
W 4337
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4338
s/n W4338
Avro
W 4338
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn Oct 1942. Missing on operation to Essen 13/14 Jan 1943. 67 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4339
s/n W4339
Avro
W 4339
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4340
s/n W4340
Avro
W 4340
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster serial W4351
s/n W4351
Q
W 4351
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4355
s/n W4355
A
Avro
W 4355
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU;15 Sqn
Originally with No. 97 Sqn (OF-T) in late 1942. Transferred to No. 1661 CU spring 1943. To No. 15 Sqn (LS-A). Missing on operation to Stuttgart 15/16 Mar 1944. 795 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4356
s/n W4356
Avro
W 4356
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4357
s/n W4357
A
Avro
W 4357
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4358
s/n W4358
P
Avro
W 4358
Merlin
Known Units: 1 LFC;57 Sqn;1661 HCU;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4359
s/n W4359
Avro
W 4359
Merlin
Known Units: 57
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn 6 Nov 1942. Burnt in a crash near Predennack, Cornwall on a training exercise 18 Dec 1942. 50 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4360
s/n W4360
Avro
W 4360
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4361
s/n W4361
Avro
W 4361
Merlin
Known Units: 103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn Nov 1942. Missing on operation to Berlin 1/2 Mar 1943. 194 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4362
s/n W4362
Avro
W 4362
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4363
s/n W4363
U
Avro
W 4363
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4364
s/n W4364
Avro
W 4364
Merlin
Known Units: 103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn Oct 1942. Took part in Gardening operation that was No. 103's first Lancaster operation 21/22 Nov 1942. Missing on operation to Nuremburg 26/27 Aug 1943. 457 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4365
s/n W4365
B
Avro
W 4365
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
Delivered to No. 207 Sqn (EM-B) 8 Nov 1942. Missing on operation to Essen 21/22 Jan 1943. 126 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4366
s/n W4366
R
Avro
W 4366
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn Jan 1943. Missing on operation to Bochum 13/14 May 1943. 24 ops, 237 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4367
s/n W4367
Avro
W 4367
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4368
s/n W4368
U
Avro
W 4368
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn (PH-U) Nov 1942. Missing on operation to Berlin 17/18 Jan 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4369
s/n W4369
Z
Avro
W 4369
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4370
s/n W4370
Avro
W 4370
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn;12 Sqn;12 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4371
s/n W4371
C
Avro
W 4371
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4372
s/n W4372
G
Avro
W 4372
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4373
s/n W4373
F
Avro
W 4373
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4374
s/n W4374
L
Avro
W 4374
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn
With No. 12 Sqn. Aircraft crashed 3 miles south of Wickenby 18 Jun 1943 and was written off.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4375
s/n W4375
Avro
W 4375
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4376
s/n W4376
O
Avro
W 4376
Merlin
Known Units: 300 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4377
s/n W4377
Avro
W 4377
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4378
s/n W4378
Avro
W 4378
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4379
s/n W4379
A
Avro
W 4379
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4380
s/n W4380
S
Avro
W 4380
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4381
s/n W4381
B
Avro
W 4381
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4382
s/n W4382
Avro
W 4382
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4383
s/n W4383
K
Avro
W 4383
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn;1654 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4384
s/n W4384
Avro
W 4384
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4761
s/n W4761
m/d 683
P
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4761
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
Originally with No. 49 Sqn around Aug-Sep 1942. Transferred to No. 9 Sqn (WS-P) Jan 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 17/19 Jan 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4762
s/n W4762
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4762
Merlin
Known Units: ;50
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4763
s/n W4763
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4763
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4764
s/n W4764
m/d 683
K
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4764
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4765
s/n W4765
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4765
Merlin
Known Units: ;9
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4766
s/n W4766
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4766
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4767
s/n W4767
m/d 683
H
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4767
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4768
s/n W4768
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4768
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4769
s/n W4769
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4769
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4770
s/n W4770
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4770
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4771
s/n W4771
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4771
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4772
s/n W4772
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4772
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4773
s/n W4773
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4773
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4774
s/n W4774
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4774
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4775
s/n W4775
m/d 683
J
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4775
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4776
s/n W4776
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4776
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4777
s/n W4777
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4777
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4778
s/n W4778
m/d 683
T
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4778
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4779
s/n W4779
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4779
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4780
s/n W4780
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4780
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4781
s/n W4781
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4781
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4782
s/n W4782
m/d 683
J
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4782
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn 21 Oct 1942. Missing on Gardening sortie 8/9 Dec 1942. 40 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1942-December-08 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Walter Enoch Currier 2024-06-05 1942-December-08 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Donald Fraser MacDonald 2025-05-23 1942-December-08 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ernest Caldwell McLean 2023-08-28 1942-December-08 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Francis Paul Desmond Quinn 2023-08-28 Lancaster Mk.I serial W4783
s/n W4783
m/d 683
G
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4783
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
Became RAAF A66-2.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4784
s/n W4784
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4784
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4785
s/n W4785
m/d 683
J
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4785
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4786
s/n W4786
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4786
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4787
s/n W4787
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4787
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4788
s/n W4788
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4788
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4789
s/n W4789
m/d 683
E
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4789
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4790
s/n W4790
m/d 683
B
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4790
Merlin
Known Units: 1 LFS;12 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4791
s/n W4791
m/d 683
W
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4791
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4792
s/n W4792
m/d 683
Y
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4792
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4793
s/n W4793
m/d 683
A
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4793
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4794
s/n W4794
m/d 683
Z
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4794
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn;12 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4795
s/n W4795
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4795
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4796
s/n W4796
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4796
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4797
s/n W4797
m/d 683
Z
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4797
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4798
s/n W4798
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4798
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4799
s/n W4799
m/d 683
S
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4799
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4800
s/n W4800
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4800
Merlin
Known Units: ;50
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4815
s/n W4815
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4815
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4816
s/n W4816
m/d 683
K
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4816
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4817
s/n W4817
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4817
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4818
s/n W4818
m/d 683
K
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4818
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4819
s/n W4819
m/d 683
O
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4819
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4820
s/n W4820
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4820
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4821
s/n W4821
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4821
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4822
s/n W4822
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4822
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4823
s/n W4823
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4823
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4824
s/n W4824
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4824
Merlin
Known Units: ;50
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4825
s/n W4825
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4825
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4826
s/n W4826
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4826
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4827
s/n W4827
m/d 683
W
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4827
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-27
Bombing Gelsenkirchen Germany 1943-06-26 to 1943-06-26
103 (B) Sqn (RAF) Elsham Wolds
GELSENKIRCHEN
473 aircraft - 214 Lancasters, 134 Halifaxes, 73 Stirlings, 40 Wellingtons, 12 Mos?quitoes. This was the first raid to Gelsenkirchen since 1941, when it had been one of Bomber Command's regular 'oil targets', although, being in the middle of the Ruhr, this town had often been hit when other targets were attacked. 30 aircraft - 13 Lancasters, 7 Halifaxes, 6 Stirlings, 4 Wellingtons - were lost, 6?3 per cent of the force.
The target was obscured by cloud and the Oboe Mosquitoes, for once, failed to produce regular and accurate marking since 5 of the 12 Oboe aircraft found that their equipment was unserviceable. The raid was not a success. Diisseldorf reports 24 buildings destroyed and 3,285 damaged but 2,937 of these suffered only superficial blast damage. 20 industrial premises were hit and 4 of them suffered total production loss but no large fires were involved and the loss in production lasted for no longer than 2 weeks. 16 people were killed.
Bombs probably fell on many other Ruhr towns. Solingen, nearly 30 miles from Gelsenkirchen, recorded 21 people killed and 58 injured on this night.source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Lancaster W4827 was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Karl-Heinz Scherfling of the 10./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Bergen airfield.source: Aviation Safety Network
1943-June-26 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Horace Addison 2025-06-19 1943-June-26 PoW RAFVR Pilot Officer C.E,L. Grant 2025-06-19 1943-June-26 KIA RAFVR Sergeant R. L. Hollywood 2025-06-19 1943-June-26 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Alton Harding Langille 2025-06-21 1943-June-26 PoW RAFVR Pilot Officer C.B. Reynolds 2025-06-19 1943-June-26 PoW RAFVR Pilot Officer D. Towers 2025-06-19 1943-June-26 PoW RAFVR Sergeant G.J. Wallis 2025-06-19 Lancaster Mk.I serial W4828
s/n W4828
m/d 683
G
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4828
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4829
s/n W4829
m/d 683
T
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4829
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4830
s/n W4830
m/d 683
D
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4830
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4831
s/n W4831
m/d 683
K
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4831
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4832
s/n W4832
m/d 683
U
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4832
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4833
s/n W4833
m/d 683
J
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4833
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4834
s/n W4834
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4834
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4835
s/n W4835
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4835
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4836
s/n W4836
m/d 683
P
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4836
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4837
s/n W4837
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4837
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4838
s/n W4838
m/d 683
B
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4838
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4839
s/n W4839
m/d 683
F
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4839
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4840
s/n W4840
m/d 683
B
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4840
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Bombing Essen Germany 1943-01-03 to 1943-01-03
9 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Waddington
Claim by Uffz. Christian K_ltringer 7./NJG1 5223b9: 1 km. South of Velp: 5,600m at 20:15. Crashed near steam pumping station in Overhagense Weide at Velp. The RCAF members of the crew were initially buried at Velp. Reinterred 12 October 1945. Source John Jones
1943-January-03 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert Lloyd Dickie 2025-01-30 1943-January-03 KIA RAFVR Flight Lieutenant Douglas Herbert Scott Lonsdale DFC 2025-01-30 1943-January-03 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Robert Richmond Moore 2025-01-30 1943-January-03 KIA RAFVR Sergeant James Ivor Morris 2025-01-30 1943-January-03 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Albert Thomas Riley 2025-01-30 1943-January-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Kenneth Read Smith 2025-01-30 1943-January-03 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Arthur Douglas Smitherman 2025-01-30 Lancaster Mk.I serial W4841
s/n W4841
m/d 683
W
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4841
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4842
s/n W4842
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4842
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4843
s/n W4843
m/d 683
K
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4843
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4844
s/n W4844
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4844
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4845
s/n W4845
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4845
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4846
s/n W4846
m/d 683
S
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4846
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4847
s/n W4847
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4847
Merlin
Known Units: ;83
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4848
s/n W4848
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4848
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4849
s/n W4849
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4849
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4850
s/n W4850
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4850
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4851
s/n W4851
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4851
Merlin
Known Units: 3 LFS
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4852
s/n W4852
m/d 683
B
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4852
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4853
s/n W4853
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4853
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4854
s/n W4854
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4854
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4855
s/n W4855
m/d 683
D
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4855
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4856
s/n W4856
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4856
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4857
s/n W4857
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4857
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4858
s/n W4858
m/d 683
A
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4858
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4859
s/n W4859
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4859
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4860
s/n W4860
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4860
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4861
s/n W4861
m/d 683
M
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4861
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4862
s/n W4862
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4862
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4863
s/n W4863
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4863
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4864
s/n W4864
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4864
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4879
s/n W4879
m/d 683
D
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4879
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4880
s/n W4880
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4880
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4881
s/n W4881
m/d 683
G
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4881
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Bombing Berlin Germany 1943-12-02 to 1943-12-02
460 () Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft W 4881 was attacked by a night fighter during a raid on Berlin, Germany, and exploded. Killed were RCAF W/O II I. Rodin (air gunner); RAAF Pilot Officer J.H.J. English (DFC) (pilot), RAAF Sgt's. R.O. Cole (wireless operator / air gunner) and A.E. Kan (air gunner). Taken Prisoners of War were RAAF Pilot Officer N.J. Anderson (navigator); RAF Flt. Sgt. A.W. Catty (bomb aimer), and RAF Sgt. W.L. Miller (flight engineer).Four of the aircraft taking part in the raid that night carried a War Correspondent, including Australian Norman Stockton, age 40, a journalist for Australian Associated News (specifically the Sydney Sun). Stockton was also killed on Lancaster W4881.
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4882
s/n W4882
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4882
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4883
s/n W4883
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4883
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4884
s/n W4884
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4884
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4885
s/n W4885
m/d 683
L
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4885
Merlin
Known Units: 3 LFS
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4886
s/n W4886
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4886
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4887
s/n W4887
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4887
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4888
s/n W4888
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4888
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4889
s/n W4889
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4889
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4890
s/n W4890
m/d 683
T
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4890
Merlin
Known Units: 1 LFS
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4891
s/n W4891
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4891
Merlin
Known Units:
With No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF in August 1943. No record of operations.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4892
s/n W4892
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4892
Merlin
Known Units: ;207
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4893
s/n W4893
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4893
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4894
s/n W4894
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4894
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4895
s/n W4895
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4895
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4896
s/n W4896
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4896
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-27
1943-March-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Walter Raymond Affleck 2024-11-01 1943-March-08 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Robert Douglas Strong 2024-07-09 1943-March-08 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Robert Harvey Ward 2024-07-10 1943-March-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Murray Edward White DFM 2024-07-12 Lancaster Mk.I serial W4897
s/n W4897
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4897
Merlin
Known Units: ;463
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4898
s/n W4898
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4898
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4899
s/n W4899
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4899
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4900
s/n W4900
m/d 683
Q
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4900
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4901
s/n W4901
m/d 683
W
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4901
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4902
s/n W4902
m/d 683
U
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4902
Merlin
Known Units: 1654 HCU;1654 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4903
s/n W4903
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4903
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4904
s/n W4904
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4904
Merlin
Known Units: ;1667
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4905
s/n W4905
m/d 683
S
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4905
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn;83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4918
s/n W4918
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4918
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4919
s/n W4919
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4919
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4920
s/n W4920
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4920
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4921
s/n W4921
m/d 683
Q
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4921
Merlin
Known Units: 1654 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4922
s/n W4922
m/d 683
N
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4922
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4923
s/n W4923
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4923
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4924
s/n W4924
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4924
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4925
s/n W4925
m/d 683
N
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4925
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4926
s/n W4926
m/d 683
H
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4926
Merlin
Known Units: 1654 HCU;1654 HCU
Converted to Mk. IIIlast update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4927
s/n W4927
m/d 683
C
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4927
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4928
s/n W4928
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4928
Merlin
Known Units: ;83
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4929
s/n W4929
m/d 683
R
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4929
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4930
s/n W4930
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4930
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4931
s/n W4931
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4931
Merlin
Known Units: ;207
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4932
s/n W4932
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4932
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4933
s/n W4933
m/d 683
Y
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4933
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4934
s/n W4934
m/d 683
S
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4934
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4935
s/n W4935
m/d 683
M
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4935
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4936
s/n W4936
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4936
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4937
s/n W4937
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4937
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4938
s/n W4938
m/d 683
A
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4938
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4939
s/n W4939
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4939
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4940
s/n W4940
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4940
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4941
s/n W4941
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4941
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4942
s/n W4942
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4942
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4943
s/n W4943
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4943
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4944
s/n W4944
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4944
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4945
s/n W4945
m/d 683
Z
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4945
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
Delivered to No. 207 Sqn (EM-Z) 29 Mar 1943. Missing on Gardening sortie 28/29 Apr 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4946
s/n W4946
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4946
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4947
s/n W4947
m/d 683
Z
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4947
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4948
s/n W4948
m/d 683
S
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4948
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4949
s/n W4949
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4949
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4950
s/n W4950
m/d 683
L
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4950
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4951
s/n W4951
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4951
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4952
s/n W4952
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4952
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4953
s/n W4953
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4953
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4954
s/n W4954
m/d 683
V
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4954
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4955
s/n W4955
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4955
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4956
s/n W4956
m/d 683
J
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4956
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4957
s/n W4957
m/d 683
P
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4957
Merlin
Known Units: PNTU
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4958
s/n W4958
m/d 683
N
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4958
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4959
s/n W4959
m/d 683
S
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4959
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4960
s/n W4960
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4960
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4961
s/n W4961
m/d 683
S
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4961
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4962
s/n W4962
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4962
Merlin
Known Units: ;207
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4963
s/n W4963
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4963
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4964
s/n W4964
m/d 683
J
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4964
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4965
s/n W4965
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4965
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4966
s/n W4966
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4966
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4967
s/n W4967
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4967
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4980
s/n W4980
m/d 683
W
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4980
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn;15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4981
s/n W4981
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4981
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.I serial W4982
s/n W4982
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4982
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4983
s/n W4983
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4983
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4984
s/n W4984
m/d 683
J
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4984
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Bombing Dortmund Germany 1943-05-24 to 1943-05-24
460 () Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, England
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft W 4984 went down near Schoonebeek, Holland, 14 km SSE of Emmen, during a night operation over enemy territory. No take-off time was recorded. Casualties included RCAF Flt. Sgt. F.W. Ralph (air gunner); RAAF Flt. Sgt's. J.S. Biffen (wireless operator / air gunner), B.M.T. Davis (pilot), K.D. Dyce (navigator), and F.S. Wright (air gunner); and RAF Sgt. E. Rowlands (flight engineer). RAAF Flt. Sgt. C. Goldthorpe (bomb aimer) was taken Prisoner of War.Lancaster Mk.III serial W4985
s/n W4985
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4985
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4986
s/n W4986
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4986
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4987
s/n W4987
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4987
Merlin
Known Units: ;460
last update: 2025-June-27
Bombing Hamburg Germany 1943-07-25 to 1943-07-25
460 () () RAF Binbrook, England
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster W4987 took off from RAF Binbrook at 2308 hours on the night of 24/25th July 1943 to attack Hamburg, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. Twenty six aircraft from the squadron took part in the attack. Casualties included RCAF Flt. Sgt. A.J.E. Perron (air gunner); RAAF Flt. Sgt's. A.G. Ashley (pilot), F.S. Forsyth (air gunner), and F.C. Taylor (navigator); RAF Sgt's. J.M. Acheson (bomb aimer), J.V. Joyce (wireless operator), and D.W. Metcalfe (flight engineer).Lancaster Mk.III serial W4988
s/n W4988
m/d 683
Q
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4988
Merlin
Known Units: ;460
last update: 2025-June-27
Bombing Berlin Germany 1943-09-04 to 1943-09-04
460 () Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Strike Again). Lancaster W4988 was on a bombing mission to Berlin, Germany, when it was hit by both flak and night fighters. RAAF Flt. Sgt. N.J. Conway (navigator) was killed. Taken Prisoners of War were RAAF Pilot Officer L.G. Greenaway (bomb aimer), RCAF Flt. Sgt. H.K. Ward (rear gunner), and RAAF Sgt. A.J. O'Brien (wireless operator / air gunner). Aviation Safety Network provided a detailed description of the events: "While over Berlin the aircraft was caught by several searchlights and attacked by German night fighters and the port outer engine caught fire but Pilot Flying Officer Francis Archibald Randall RAAF managed to get away and by stopping the engine minimising the fire. Shortly after W4988 was caught in the light of flares dropped by the fighters and once again attacked. This time the starboard outer engine caught fire and a fire started in the fuselage just aft of the mid-upper turret. The burning engine was stopped and the fire died. During the combat the Bomb aimer Pilot Officer Lindsay Grafton Greenaway RAAF had left the Lancaster in parachute over Berlin. With only two good engines Randall asked navigator Flight Sergeant Norman James Conway RAAF for a course to take them across Denmark on the return flight. He then changed his mind and asked for a course for Sweden. When they sighted the east coast of Sjælland and could see the lights in Sweden the fire in the starboard engine started again and Randall ordered the crew to bale [sic] out. The first to leave the Lancaster was Flt. Engr. Sergeant Arthur Hilton Johns, Wop Sergeant Allen John O`Brian RAAF and Rear Gunner Flight Sergeant Harry Knight Ward RCAF. Then navigator Flight Sergeant Conway left. Mid-upper gunner Sergeant Herbert Bell parachute had been laying [sic] in the fuselage and had been damaged by bullets from the nightfighter. Randall told Bell to unpack it to see that it was not too badly damaged. Bell then jumped with the unpacked parachute folded in front of his chest. When the parachute unfolded the lines tangled round his neck and injured him. Randall left the plane as the last person. Conway jumped 5th and is believed to have landed in the sea off Sjælland and to have drowned. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial."Lancaster Mk.III serial W4989
s/n W4989
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4989
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4990
s/n W4990
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4990
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4991
s/n W4991
m/d 683
Q
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4991
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4992
s/n W4992
m/d 683
A
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4992
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4993
s/n W4993
m/d 683
J
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4993
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4994
s/n W4994
m/d 683
T
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4994
Merlin
Known Units: 1656 HCU;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4995
s/n W4995
m/d 683
N
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4995
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4996
s/n W4996
m/d 683
R
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4996
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4997
s/n W4997
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4997
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4998
s/n W4998
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4998
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W4999
s/n W4999
m/d 683
G
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 4999
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn;100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5000
s/n W5000
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5000
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5001
s/n W5001
m/d 683
J
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5001
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5002
s/n W5002
m/d 683
L
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5002
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5003
s/n W5003
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5003
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5004
s/n W5004
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5004
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5005
s/n W5005
m/d 683
N
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5005
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn;460 Sqn;550 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5006
s/n W5006
m/d 683
W
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5006
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5007
s/n W5007
m/d 683
O
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5007
Merlin
Known Units: ;460
last update: 2025-June-27
Bombing Cologne Germany 1943-06-17 to 1943-06-17
460 () () RAF Binbrook, England
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster W5007 took off from RAF Binbrook at 2302 hours on the night of 16 June 1943 detailed to attack Cologne, Germany. The aircraft called up Binbrook to say that the hydraulic system had been shot away and they were very badly damaged. Shortly after at 0445 hours on 17 June, W 5007 crashed at Elsham Wolds. Casualties included RCAF Sgt. W. Brodie (air gunner); RAAF Flt. Sgt's. N.O.B. Flitcroft (air gunner), L.M. McDonnell (air bomber), and J.C. Plummer (navigator); and RAF Sgt's. D.J.D. Strath (pilot), D.S. Gent (wireless operator / air gunner) and R.T. Harman (flight engineer).Lancaster Mk.III serial W5008
s/n W5008
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5008
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5009
s/n W5009
m/d 683
Z
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5009
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn;101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5010
s/n W5010
m/d 683
L
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5010
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5011
s/n W5011
m/d 683
Z
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5011
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-27
Lancaster Mk.III serial W5012
s/n W5012
m/d 683
Metropolitan-Vickers
W 5012
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-27