Carruthers, Carl Stuart (Flight Sergeant)

Took off from Wighton at 00:35 in Stirling Mk I (Sqn code LS-D Bomber Command) on an operation to Essen Germany.

Shot down by flak and crashed at 03:05 in the Schalterbosch (Gelderland) some 3 km W of Loenen op de Veluwe Holland.

Killed: Flight Sergeant Carl Stuart Carruthers RCAF R/54101 KIA Ugchelen-Heidehof Gemeral Cemetery Apeidoorn Plot 4. Grave 148. Flight Sergeant William Andrew Cross RCAF R/74718 pilot KIA Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery grave XV. A. 10. Flight Sergeant John Leonard Hartley Phillips RCAF R/60210 KIA Ugchelen-Heidehof General Cemetery Apeldoorn Plot 4. Grave 142. Sergeant Harry Walter Trevor Bidgood RAF KIA Ugchelen-Heidehof General Cemetery Apeldoorn Plot 4. Joint grave 149-150. Pilot Officer Ronald Max Disley RAF KIA Ugchelen-Heidehof General Cemetery Apeldoorn Plot 4 Grave 146. Sergeant Donald McCallum RAF KIA Ugchelen-Heidehof General Cemetery Apeldoorn Plot 4. Joint grave 149-150. F/Lt George William Nicholson RAF KIA Ugchelen-Heidehof General Cemetery Apeldoorn Plot 4. Grave 143. Pilot Officer Albert John Rampton RAF KIA Ugchelen-Heidehof General Cemetery Apeldoorn Plot 4. Grave 144. Sergeant Douglas Francis Hooper Tuck RAF KIA Ugchelen-Heidehof General Cemetery Apeldoorn Plot 4. Grave 145.

This was a nine-man crew and consisted of: 3 pilots, 4 wireless operator-air gunners, 1 navigator, and 1 flight engineer

FS Carruthers was originally buried at Uchelen, but was later exhumed and re-interred at the Ugchelen-Heidehof General Cemetery, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Holland

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