Ohsweken, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario (parents)Took off from Scampton at 21:04 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code EA-B Bomber Command) on an operation to Nuremberg Germany.
The aircraft had dropped it's bomb load when it was in collision with Wellington BJ-701 of 57Sqn. Both aircraft crashed and all crew of both aircraft were killed.
Killed in Lancaster R-5897 includes Capton: Sergeant John Breivis RCAF R/132533 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave Plot 11. Row F. Graves 4-12. Flight Sergeant Edward George Burton RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Plot 11. Row F. Grave 1. Sergeant Ernest Claude Ibbotson RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. F. 4-12. Sergeant Kent Newbery RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery, Plot 11. Row F. Grave 3. Sergeant James Duckett Osbaldeston RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. F. 4-12. Sergeant Gilbert Aitken Swan RAAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery, Plot 11. Row F. Grave 2.
Killed in Wellington BJ-701: Warrant Officer Class 2 John Hoskin Rowney RCAF R/80558 pilot KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. F. 4-12. Flight Sergeant Kenneth Charles Brown RNZAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. F. 4-12. Sergeant David George Craill RNZAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. F. 4-12. Sergeant Henry William Pike RNZAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. F. 4-12. Sergeant Charles James Whalley RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. F. 4-12.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)
Air Crew Remembered