Took off from Wickenby at 22:27 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code UM-V2 Bomber Command) on an operation to Duisburg Germany.
Hit by flak and crashed at crossing of Heerstrasse-Dusseldorfer Strasse in Duisburg-Wanheimerort at 01:38.
Killed: Flying Officer James Commodore Campbell RCAF J/26122 pilot KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 25. B. 9. Pilot Officer Roland Marcel Joseph Champagne RCAF J/95080 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Flying Officer Robert Albert Charland RCAF J/29054 pilot KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Flying Officer Ross Cuthbert Clouston RCAF J/35921 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Pilot Officer William Frederick Palmer RCAF J/92063 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Sergeant Sidney John Akhurst RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Flying Officer John Allan Orr RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 25. C. 1-4. Sergeant Thomas George Reynolds RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 25. B. 10.
