Birth Date: unkown date (age unknown)
Marshal | |
Air Chief Marshal | A/C/M |
Air Marshal | A/M |
Air Vice Marshal | A/V/M |
Air Commodore | A/C |
Group Captain | G/C |
Wing Commander | W/C |
Squadron Leader | S/L |
Flight Lieutenant | F/L |
Flying Officer | F/O |
Pilot Officer | P/O |
Warrant Officer 1st Class | WO1 |
Warrant Officer 2nd Class | WO2 |
Flight Sergeant | FS |
Sergeant | SGT |
Corporal | CPL |
Senior Aircraftman | SAC |
Leading Aircraftman | LAC |
Aircraftman 1st Class | AC1 |
Aircraftman 2nd Class | AC2 |
Took off from Oulton at 22:36 in Liberator Mk VI (Sqn code: 6G-J Bomber Command) on a Radio Counter Measures mission (dropping chaff) in the direction of Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
Shot down by a night fighter and crashed SE of Dortmund, Germany.
Killed: Flight Sergeant Desmond Bryant RAF KIA Venray War Cemetery Plot VII. Row E. Grave 6., Holland. Flight Sergeant John Henry Kendall RAF KIA Venray War Cemetery Plot VII. Row E. Grave 5. Flying Officer John Willard Thompson RCAF J/38084 KIA Pilot Venray War Cemetery Plot VII. Roiw E. Grave 1. Sergeant Edwin Eric Whittaker RAF KIA Venray War Cemetery Plot VII. Row E. Grave 3. Flight Sergeant Ronald Mark Wood RCAF R/176382 KIA Venray War Cemetery Plot VII. Row E. Grave 4. Flight Sergeant Ronald Wynn RAF KIA Venray War Cemetery Plot VII. Row E. Grave 2.
POWs (includes Graham) all were kept in hospital until liberation in May, 1945: F/Sg. Brian Maxwell RCAF R/191140 POW W/O William Francis Baker RAF POW. W/O Ronald Albert Victor Palmer RAF POW. Flying Officer Ronald Walter Johnson RAF POW injured and confined to hospital until liberation..