Took off from Skellingthorpe at 17:02 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code VN-X Bomber Command) on an operation to attack the Mittelland Kanal near Gravenhorst Germany.
Damaged by flak over th target and shot down by a night fighter out-bound and crashed at Griendtsveen, Limburg Holland.
Killed includes Campbell: Flying Officer Peter Gordon Anderson RCAF J/36360 pilot KIA Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery Holland grave XV. D. 8. Pilot Officer Donald Alexander McFayden RCAF J/44252 Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery Holland grave XV. F. 9. Pilot Officer Ward Rex Southcott RCAF J/94334 KIA Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery Holland grave XV. D. 11. Sergeant Fred Seddon Langton RAF KIA Overloon War Cemetery Holland grave II. B. 2. Flight Sergeant Denis Alphonsus McCauley RAF KIA Overloon War Cemetery Holland grave II. B. 1.
