Callingham, John (Pilot Officer)

Prisoner of War 1944-September-11

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Home: Lambeth, Ontario

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Service

RCAF

Unit

578 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Accuracy

Base

RAF Burn

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

J/90377
PoW: 766

Took off from Burn at 16:04 in Halifax Mark III (Sqn code: LK-Q Bomber Command) on an operation to Gelsenkirchen Germany.

Shot down by flak and crashed at 18:30 at Kirchellen a town on the North-West fringe of the Ruhr Valley and some 7 km SSW from the centre of Dorsten.

Killed: Sergeant Albert James Ridley RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 20. F. 7.

POWs includes Callingham: Sergeant Leslie Blundell RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Sergeant Ronald Charles Indge RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Sergeant John Albert Rix RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Sergeant John Michell Tregoning RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia.

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