Champagne, Roland Marcel Joseph (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-October-15

Pilot Officer Roland Marcel Joseph Champagne RCAF

Birth Date: 1920

Born:

Parents: Alphonse Champagne

Spouse:

Home: St Norbert, Manitoba (ftaher)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

626 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
To Strive And Not To Yield To strive and not to yeild

Base

RAF Skellingthorpe

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Wireless Air Gunner

Service Numbers

J/95080
Prev: R/124105

Home

St Norbert, Manitoba (ftaher)

Target

Duisburg Germany

Final Burial

Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Col grave 25 C 1-4

Took off from Skellingthorpe at 21:26 in Lancaster Mk III on an operation to Duisburg Germany.

Shot down (means not found) and crashed across the border into Germany.

Killed; Sergeant Stanley Adair RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 22. D. 4-8. Flight Sergeant John Kean Burnside RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 22. D. 2. Sergeant William Goulding RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 22. D. 4-8. Pilot Officer Arthur Francis Nevin RCAF J/89875 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 22. D. 4-8. Pilot Officer Christopher Charles Scrimshaw RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 22. D. 3. Flying Officer Gerald Mclaughlin Taylor RCAF J/86732 pilot KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 22. D. 4-8.

POW: Flying Officer John Meek RCAF J/23130 POW Stalag 9C Muhlhausen.

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