O'Reilly, Edmund Neil (Pilot Officer)

Prisoner of War 1944-June-22

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Birth Date: 1920-October-12

Born: Sydney Cape Breton Nova Scotia

Parents: son of Peter O'Reilly and Mary MacNeil

Spouse:

Home: Sydney Cape Breton Nova Scotia

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

49 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Cave Canem Beware of the dog

Base

Fiskerton

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

J/88095
Prev: R/153214
PoW: 7075

Home
Google MapSydney Cape Breton Nova Scotia
Target
Google MapWesseling

Took off from Fiskerton at 23:22 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: EA-J Bomber Command) for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling Germany.

Shot down and crashed (no furtheer information).

Killed: Sergeant James Alfred Thomas Maton RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 6. E. 25.O25.] Flying Officer Leslie Norman Simpkin RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 3. J. 1.

POWs includes O'Reilly: Sergeant Anthony Hugh Ladkin RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. W/O Richard Stanley Philips RAAF POW Stalag 6J Dorston; Westphalia. Flight Sergeant Thomas Arthur Fletcher Wilson RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Sergeant W Watson RAF POW camp not listed.