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Caryi, Charles Joseph Anthony (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1945-February-14

Birth Date: 1923-February-10 (age 22)

Home: Halifax, Nova Scotia

Service
RCAF
Unit
153 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Noctividus We see by night
Base
RAF Scampton
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Marshal
Air Chief MarshalA/C/M
Air MarshalA/M
Air Vice MarshalA/V/M
Air CommodoreA/C
Group CaptainG/C
Wing CommanderW/C
Squadron LeaderS/L
Flight LieutenantF/L
Flying OfficerF/O
Pilot OfficerP/O
Warrant Officer 1st ClassWO1
Warrant Officer 2nd ClassWO2
Flight SergeantFS
SergeantSGT
CorporalCPL
Senior AircraftmanSAC
Leading AircraftmanLAC
Aircraftman 1st ClassAC1
Aircraftman 2nd ClassAC2
Position
Air Gunner
Service Numbers
R/183314

Took off from Scampton at 20:05 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code P4-O Bomber Command) on an operation to Chemnitz Germany.

Aircraft shot down (means not found) and crashed between the villages of Arnsfeld and Grumbach Germany.

Killed includes Caryi: Flight Sergeant John Joseph O'brien Heady RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 271. F/Lt Clement Robert Mills RCAF J/6675 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 278. Cpl Frederick William Arthur Moore RAF KIA Singapore Memorial Column 452. Flying Officer Lorne Albert MacDonald RCAF J/42188 KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 1. F. 16. Flying Officer Ross Samuel Stanzel RCAF J/42702 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 280. Sergeant William Henry Wicks RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 277. Warrant Officer Class 1 John Howard Wilson RCAF R/130331 KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 1. F. 13.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave.com Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Home
Google MapHalifax, Nova Scotia
Target
Google MapChemnitz Germany
Burial
Google MapBerlin War Cemetery
Plot 1 Row F Grave 12

Lancaster NN803

Avro Lancaster

Avro Lancaster Mk. X RCAF Serial FM 213
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The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirling, all three aircraft being four-engined heavy bombers adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the same wartime era.

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

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Lancaster Mk.I NN803

P4RAF RoundelO
Delivered to No. 153 Sqn (P4-O) 3 Feb 1945. Missing on operation to Chemnitz 14/15 Feb 1945

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