Fullard, Howard Wallace (Flight Sergeant)

Prisoner of War Early Release 1943-February-19

Flight Sergeant Howard Wallace Fullard RCAF

Birth Date: 1915-May-08

Born:

Parents: Mrs & Mrs Wallace Fullard of Notre Dame de Grace, Montreal Quebec Canada

Spouse: Jean Wright of Starr City Saskatchewan, Canada

Home: Montreal, Quebec

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

9 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Noctem Volamus Through out the night we fly

Base

RAF Waddington

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Engineer

Service Numbers

6164A
PoW: 42726

The Winnipeg Tribune November 9, 1943

The Geneva Convention made provision for the repatriation of all Prisoners of War, even during hostilities. It was only possible for the British and Germans to reach agreement over the seriously ill and disabled. For the majority of the 40,000 British servicemen who were taken prisoner in 1939 and 1940, the war was to be a very long and dispiriting experience. Negotiations, conducted through the Red Cross, over the repatriation of seriously wounded men, had begun in late 1940. They did not progress very far because there were far fewer German men in this category than British. It was only after substantial numbers of Germans were taken prisoner in the Desert campaign of 1942 that the talks resumed. The actual exchange of prisoners did not take place until October 1943. Ullapool Museum, Ullapool, Scotland

Unvetted Source The Manchester Guardian, 1943-October-19 page 5

  1. Warrant Officer Edward Bradley Argue
  2. Warrant Officer Marie Joseph Alfred Jean Aumond
  3. Flight Lieutenant Donald Charles Dougall DFC
  4. Sergeant Howard Wallace Fullard
  5. Flight Lieutenant Ross Raymond Gillespie
  6. Flight Lieutenant William Minto MacKay
  7. Flight Lieutenant Donald Robert Morrison, DFC, DFM
  8. Flight Sergeant John Bayman Nickerson
  9. Warrant Officer James Alexander Smith
  10. Warrant Officer Jack Arthur Westwood
  11. Warrant Officer Walter Gordon Wilcox

Flight Sergeant Howard Wallace Fullard was severely injured when his aircraft was shot down and lost a leg.

Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-45 by Oliver Clutton-Brock, page 297

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Unvetted Source The Westmount examiner I BAnQ numerique

Unvetted Source Fullard Howard Wallace - Online Museum of Prisoners of War

Mission

Lancaster Mk.I/III ED492

Bombing Wilhelmshaven Germany 1943-February-18 to 1943-February-19

9 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Waddington

9 Squadron (Per noctum volamus) RAF Waddington. Lancaster III aircraft ED 492 WS-W was reported as involved in a mid-air collision with another Lancaster near the target area of Wilhelmshaven, Germany by there is also a claim from heavy flak battery Marine Flak Abt 282 at Hooksiel, Germany. The Lancaster crashed at Schreiersort, near Wangerland, Germany with the loss of four aircrew members killed

Flight Sergeant Ernest John Walter Davis (RAFVR), Sergeant James Storey Aird (RAFVR), Sergeant Alfred Thomas Berwick (RAFVR) and Sergeant Ralph William Darlington (RAFVR) were all killed in action

Sergeant Howard Wallace Fullard (RCAF), Warrant Officer James Vaughan (RAFVR) and Warrant Officer John Arthur Jones-Ford (RAFVR) all survived to become Prisoners of War

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One - 1 January - 22 June by Theo Boiten, page 29

Bombers First and Last by Gordon Thorburn, page 377

Unvetted Source Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database