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You searched for: “ED783”

#Name* SORT (↓)First NamesTitleRankRAF Equivalent RankService No.Photo (Click to Expand)CommemoratedBornNationalityRoleAwardsAir ForceCommandUnitDateofIncident *See Note SORT (↓)AircraftTypeSerialCodeVictories (Fighters)BaseTimeMission                        Incident                        FateReferring Database                        Notes                        Links/Archive Reports
1 BrowneJ BSergeant1336517
Dalfsen General CemeteryBomber Command44Sqn
1943-04-30LancasterIIIED783KM-FWaddington.0025.EssenCrashed at Rechteren HollandKilledAttacked by German ace Hauptman Wolgang Thimmig on the homeward bound trip, his Lancaster burst into flames and crashed 13 miles south-east of Zwolle. There were no survivors and today the crew are buried side by side in Dalfsen General Cemetery, Holland.

Attacker Wolfgang Thimmig
2 EllisLeslie JamesPilot Officer145792


Dalfsen General Cemetery1923 RomfordPilot1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45,RAFVRBomber Command44Sqn
1943-04-30LancasterIIIED783KM-FWaddington.0025.Essen Attacked by nightfighter. Crashed at Rechteren Holland KilledSon of William and Margaret Ellis of Romford, Essex. Enlisting in the RAF in 1941, he was selected for pilot training and embarked the the U.S.A. Returned to the U.K. in the summer of 1942 as a Pilot Officer in the RAFVR, and was posted to 44Sqn (Rhodesia), a Lancaster unit operating out of RAF Waddington, in March 1943. Having then participated in nine operational sorties, including an outing to Essen on the night of 3-4 April 1943, when his Lancaster was coned by searchlights and the port inner engine rendered useless owing to enemy action - and been subjected to fighter attack in another outing to Spezia on the 18 April - Ellis took-off on his final wartime sortie, a strike against Essen on the night of 30 April. Attacked by German ace Hauptman Wolgang Thimmig on the homeward bound trip, his Lancaster burst into flames and crashed 13 miles south-east of Zwolle. There were no survivors and today the crew are buried side by side in Dalfsen General Cemetery, Holland.


Attacker Wolfgang Thimmig
3 EllisH CSergeant1270431
Dalfsen General CemeteryBomber Command44Sqn
1943-04-30LancasterIIIED783KM-FWaddington.0025.EssenCrashed at Rechteren HollandKilledAttacked by German ace Hauptman Wolgang Thimmig on the homeward bound trip, his Lancaster burst into flames and crashed 13 miles south-east of Zwolle. There were no survivors and today the crew are buried side by side in Dalfsen General Cemetery, Holland.

Attacker Wolfgang Thimmig
4 Le PageR LSergeant577884
Dalfsen General CemeteryBomber Command44Sqn
1943-04-30LancasterIIIED783KM-FWaddington.0025.EssenCrashed at Rechteren HollandKilledAttacked by German ace Hauptman Wolgang Thimmig on the homeward bound trip, his Lancaster burst into flames and crashed 13 miles south-east of Zwolle. There were no survivors and today the crew are buried side by side in Dalfsen General Cemetery, Holland.

Attacker Wolfgang Thimmig
5 McClellanS SSergeant1384317
Dalfsen General CemeteryBomber Command44Sqn
1943-04-30LancasterIIIED783KM-FWaddington.0025.EssenCrashed at Rechteren HollandKilledAttacked by German ace Hauptman Wolgang Thimmig on the homeward bound trip, his Lancaster burst into flames and crashed 13 miles south-east of Zwolle. There were no survivors and today the crew are buried side by side in Dalfsen General Cemetery, Holland.

Attacker Wolfgang Thimmig
6 RollingsWilliam ArnoldFlying OfficerJ/21818
Dalfsen General CemeteryRCAFBomber Command44Sqn
1943-04-30LancasterIIIED783KM-FWaddington.0025.EssenCrashed at Rechteren HollandKilled Paradie Archive Database Attacked by German ace Hauptman Wolgang Thimmig on the homeward bound trip, his Lancaster burst into flames and crashed 13 miles south-east of Zwolle. There were no survivors and today the crew are buried side by side in Dalfsen General Cemetery, Holland.

Attacker Wolfgang Thimmig
7 WilliamsRSergeant974495
Dalfsen General CemeteryBomber Command44Sqn
1943-04-30LancasterIIIED783KM-FWaddington.0025.EssenCrashed at Rechteren HollandKilledAttacked by German ace Hauptman Wolgang Thimmig on the homeward bound trip, his Lancaster burst into flames and crashed 13 miles south-east of Zwolle. There were no survivors and today the crew are buried side by side in Dalfsen General Cemetery, Holland.

Attacker Wolfgang Thimmig

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