Aircraft | Avro Lancaster III |
Serial Number | ND357 |
Markings | GT-G |
Burial/Memorial Country | Netherlands |
Burial/Memorial Place | Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery |
Grave Reference | Coll. grave 29. B. 2.. |
Epitaph | WITH YOUR COMRADES, GOD HAS YOU IN HIS KEEPING, I HAVE YOU IN MY HEART |
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 225 |
Service Number | 80423 |
Service | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Group | 8 |
Squadron | 156 |
Trade | Air Gunner |
Country of origin if different | Rhodesia |
Alexander E S (S/L) |
Cawdery V N (F/S) |
Lawrance C H (W/O) |
Mansfield N R (W/C) |
Swinney C R (F/L) |
Trott B A (P/O) |
Start Date | 14-01-1944 |
End Date | 15-01-1944 |
Takeoff Station | Warboys |
Day/Night raid | Night |
Operation | Brunswick. 498 aircraft, all but two of them Lancasters. First major raid on this town of the war. 38 Lancasters Lost (7.6%). The German controller tracked the bomber stream from just off the English coastline and many German fighters entered the stream over Bremen, continuing to score hits until the stream left the Dutch coast on the return leg. Pathfinder losses were unusually high (11 aircraft). The raid was not successful even though the town was not expansive alongside most targets. Many bombs fell in open countryside or in neighbouring towns. Only 10 houses destroyed. 14 deaths on the ground. |
Reason for Loss | Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed at Kolhorn, ENE of Schagen, Holland |