Clarke, Donald Wallace (Pilot Officer)

Took off from Methwold at 18:35 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code HA-G Bomber Command) on an operation to Frankfurt Germany.

Aircraft lost after a mid-air collision with Lancaster ME-854 of 576 Squadron. Both crews perished. PD-262 crashed at 23:30 inside a triangle made up of the villages of Flomborn to the west Eppelsheim on the north and Gundersheim on the east all being some 15 km NW of Worms.

Killed includes Clarke: Pilot Officer Clarence Alwin Black RAAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 19. B. 1. Flying Officer Winston Leslie Leibhardt RAAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. B. 4-10. Pilot Officer Henry Clarke RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. B. 4-10. Flight Sergeant William Henry Thomas Pettman RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. B. 4-10. F/Lt Howard Thomas Seller RAF pilot KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. B. 4-10. Flying Officer Graham Olaf Barratt Sinclair RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. B. 4-10. Flight Sergeant Kenneth Charles Spiers RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. B. 4-10.