1 Personnel Dispatch Centre, RAF Pershore, 437 Sqn Dakota III aircraft KG 653 was one of 15 transports enroute to India in very poor weather with dark low clouds, heavy rain, thunder and lightning when it was attacked by fighters over Germany. The fighters tried to force it down but it went into a dive, suffered structural failure pulling out and crashed four miles south-west of Neuleiningen, Germany
Killed includes Campbell:Corp. James Ernest Allen RCAF R/116919 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 23.LAC Lawrence Irwin Beach RCAF R/53101 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.Sergeant George Beckoff RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Oliver Eugene Debs Bergen RCAF R/198657 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 22.LAC Robert Thomas Burden RCAF R/163109 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Joseph Adelard Real Chevrier RCAF R/54834 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19.LAC Joseph Robert Marcel Armand Couturier (R/174379 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.Corp. James Cummings RCAF R/10195A KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Frederick Robert Leigh Gates RCAF R/150018 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19.LAC Maxwell James Foch Good RCAF R/169520 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19.Sergeant Walter Francis Hughes RCAF R/58248 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.Corp. Howard John Hunter RCAF R/159360 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 25.F/Lt Ralph Korer RAF Pilot KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Fred Larson Kristensen RCAF R/191794 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC William John Scott Lundy RCAF R/194702 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Donald John MacDonald RCAF R/176956 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.Corp. Lorne Hamilton Moreau RCAF P/10407 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.AC1 John Dunlop McVie RCAF R/258359 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.Corp. Frederick William Sargeant RCAF R/212995 KIARheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC John Cyril Sutherland RCAF R/72988 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 24.Pilot Officer Lionel Alfred Veary RAF Nav. KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Henry Studwell Watson RCAF R/270640 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.