Clinton, OntarioTook off from Spilsby at 23:20 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code EM-W Bomber Command) on an operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling Germany.
Out-bound, the aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed near Bree, Limburg Belgium.
Killed: Flying Officer Alvin Van Dyke Corless RCAF J/26477 pilot KIA Adegem Canadian War Cemetery grave XI. J. 2. Sergeant James Ivan Magoffin RCAF R/191611 KIA Adegem Canadian War Cemetery grave XI. J. 7. Sergeant Joseph Francis Mireault RCAF R/222600 KIA Adegem Canadian War Cemetery grave XI. J. 3. Flying Officer Bruce Allan Somers RCAF J/24022 KIA Adegem Canadian War Cemetery grave XI. J. 1. Sergeant Raphael Edward De Casagrande RAF KIA Adegem Canadian War Cemetery grave XI. J. 5. Sergeant Kenneth Victor Barnes RAF KIA Adegem Canadian War Cemetery grave XI. J. 4. Flight Sergeant Stanley Robert Bore RAF KIA Adegem Canadian War Cemetery grave XI. J. 6.
Flying Officer AVD Corless was initially buried at Meeuwen but later exhumed and re-interred at the Adagem Canadian War Cemetery
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)
