Chatterton, Edward (Flight Lieutenant)

Killed in Action 1944-August-30

Flight Lieutenant Edward Chatterton RCAF

Birth Date: 1918

Born:

Parents: Thomas Eden Chatterton & Janet McNeary Chatterton

Spouse:

Home: Toronto, Ontario (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

115 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Despite The Elements

Base

RAF Witchford

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/24313

Home
Google MapToronto, Ontario (parents)
Target
Google MapStettin Germany
Final Burial
Google MapOue Kirke

Took off from Witchford at 21:14 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code KO-G Bomber Command) on an operation to Stettin Germany.

Shot down by a night fighter and crashed near Ove a small town on the N side of the Mariager Fjord and roughly 9 km WSW of Hadsund Denmark.

Killed: F/Lt Edward Chatterton RCAF J/24313 pilot KIA Ove Churchyard, Denmark. Flying Officer Anthony Michael Kovacich RCAF J/25524 KIA Ove Churchyard. Pilot Officer John Couzens Reeb RCAF J/95461 KIA Ove Churchyard. Sergeant Donald Bullock RAF KIA Ove Churchyard. Sergeant Bernard Farndale RAF KIA Ove Churchyard. Pilot Officer William George Sankey RAF KIA Ove Churchyard. Sergeant Leslie Taylor RAF KIA Ove Churchyard.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Unit Desciption

115 (B) Sqn Despite The Elements ()

No. 115 Sqn was originally formed on Dec 1, 1917 as a heavy bomber squadron and joined the Independent Air Force of the RAF in August 1918. It was disbanded in 1919, then re-formed in June 1937. It formed part of RAF Bomber Command No. 3 Group in WWII. Starting with Handley Page Harrow aircraft, it transferred to Vickers Wellingtons in 1939, which it flew until March 1943, when it transferred to Avro Lancaster B. Mk. II and later B. Mks I and III. Between April 1940 and September 1942 the squadron was seconded to Coastal Command and based at Kinloss, Scotland. It rejoined Bomber Command and flew from Mildenhall, East Wretham and Little Snoring in 1942 and 1943 before settling at Witchford, Cambridgeshire from November 1943 until the end of hostilities.

In April 1940 the squadron made the RAF's first bombing attack on the mainland of Europe, at Stavanger in Norway. In August of 1941 it participated in the service trials of the new navigational aid, GEE, and as a result of its report the device was put into mass production. Overall, in WWII the squadron flew 5392 sorties and dropped about 23,000 tons of bombs. This was the second-highest tonnage of bombs in Bomber Command. The squadron was 3rd in the number of raids in the course of the war. Since it was active over the whole span of WWI, it lost the greatest number of aircraft of any squadron in Bomber Command: it was the only squadron to lose more than 200 aircraft.