Collett, Alfred John (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-June-11

Pilot Officer Alfred John Collett RCAF

Birth Date: 1915-August-17

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Home: Vancouver, British Columbia

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

460 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAAF)
Strike And Return

Base

RAF Binbrook

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

J/89954
Prev: R/146422

Home
Google MapVancouver, British Columbia
Target
Google MapAcheres France
Temporary Burial
Google MapElancourt (Yvelines), North-west of Trappes.

Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied

Final Burial
Google MapCimetiere Militaire Francais de Viroflay
Row B Grave 23

Took off from Binbrook at 23:13 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code AR-B2 Bomber Command) to attack rail facilities Acheres France.

Crashed at Elancourt (Yvelines) where all were originally buried just to the NW of Trappes.

Killed: Pilot Officer Walter Lynwood Arksey RCAF J/89952 KIA Viroflay New Communal Cemetery Row B. Grave 22. Pilot Officer Alfred John Collett RCAF J/89954 KIA Viroflay New Communal Cemetery Row B. Grave 23. Flight Sergeant Kenneth Leslie King RAAF KIA Viroflay New Communal Cemetery Row B. Coll. grave 19-21. Pilot Officer Ronald Laing Nicholson RAAF KIA Viroflay New Communal Cemetery Row B. Grave 24. Sergeant Anthony Fisher RAF KIA Viroflay New Communal Cemetery Row B. Coll. grave 19-21. Sergeant John Patrick Murray RAF KIA Viroflay New Communal Cemetery Row B. Coll. grave 19-21.

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)

Mission

Lancaster Mk.I ME696

Bombing Acheres France 1944-June-11 to 1944-June-11

460 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binsbrook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft ME696 hit high tension wires during night operations on the railway facilities at Acheres, France. Casualties included RCAF P/O's W.L. Arksey (air gunner and A.J. Collett (air gunner); RAAF Flt. Sgt. K.L. King (bomb aimer) and Pilot Officer R.L. Nicholson (pilot); and RAFVR Sgt's. C.A. Cunningham (flight engineer), A. Fisher (navigator), and J.P. Murray (wireless operator / air gunner).