Boyce, Charles David (Pilot Officer)

207 Squadron (Semper Paratus) RAF Spilsby. Lancaster III aircraft LM 578 EM-L was homeward-bound when it was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Martin Drewes of the Stab III/NJG 1 after a raid on the synthetic oil plants at Wesseling, Germany, crashing into the North Sea northwest of Schouwen-Duiveland island, Zeeland

Sergeant RC McArthur (RAFVR), Sergeant KW Sansom (RAFVR), FS HA Shaw (RAFVR) and Flying Officer LE Bowes (RAAF) were killed. As their bodies washed ashore over a period of time, they were buried in various cemeteries in Holland, except Flying Officer Bowes, who is buried in the Cambridge City Cemetery, UK

Pilot Officer CD Boyce (RCAF), Flying Officer DJ Faires (RAFVR), FS LF Jackson (RAFVR) and Flying Officer TT Smart DFC (RAFVR) were missing presumed killed and have no known graves. They are all commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial

There were three 207 Lancaster aircraft lost on this same operation. Please see Somers, BA for ME 683 EM-W and Sherman, M for ME 827 EM-I