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NOTE ON DATES: IMPORTANT: For consistency, the Date is given as the date the mission TOOK OFF since the precise time of a loss is not always certain. Take Off date is unambigous and fixed in the official records, but obviously in those cases where the incident occurred before midnight UK time, then the Take Off Date will be the same as the Incident Date. Of course, most Bomber Command missions flew through midnight, therefore a Luftwaffe claim against a plane - or a locally generated crash report - may record the incident as occurring on the day following our Take Off Date. Bear this in mind when cross-referencing to our Luftwaffe Victories by Name/Date Database and other Luftwaffe sources. In some cases other sources may quote the date following our date, using locally generated reports as their source. To add to the potential for confusion, remember to take into account a Luftwaffe recorded date will be in local time, 1 hour ahead of UK time. When we discover a validated Incident Date we change our record if necessary.



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#Name*First NamesTitleRankRAF Equivalent RankService No.BornNationalityRoleAwardsAir ForceCommandUnitDateofIncident *See NoteAircraftTypeSerialCodeVictories (Fighters)BaseTimeMission                        Incident                        FateCommemoratedPhoto (Click to Expand)Referring Database                        Notes                        Links/Archive Reports
17001 WebbF HSergeantRCAFBomber Command419Sqn RCAF
1943-12-29HalifaxIILW282VR-YMiddleton St George1648BerlinAbandoned near BerlinPoW Paradie Archive Database
17002 WebbWFlying OfficerRCAFBomber Command420Sqn RCAF
1945-01-16Halifax IIINA188PT-ETholthorpe1839MagdeburgCrashed in vicinity of AlfeldKilledHannover War Cemetery
Paradie Archive Database
17003 WebbE VWarrant Officer Class 2RCAFBomber Command420Sqn RCAF
1944-04-24HalifaxIIIMZ503PT-LTholthorpe2135KarlsruheCrashed Zuilichem {Gelderland}KilledZuilichem General Cemetery Paradie Archive Database
17004 WebbFrederick VerePilot OfficerJ/14505Age 27CanadaNavigatorRCAFBomber Command427Sqn RCAF
1943-09-15HalifaxVDK253ZL-MRAF Leeming, Yorkshire2035Montluconcrashed Harmondsworth MIDDXKilledBrookwood Military Cemetery. Grave 45.J.5.Paradie Archive DatabaseSon of Mr. and Mrs. William Webb, and stepson of Blanche L. Webb, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Canada.
17005 WebbEdward CharlesSergeantR1802325th May 1922 in Winnipeg, ManitobaCanadianAir Gunner (Mid-Upper)RCAFBomber Command428 (Ghost) Sqn RCAF
1944-02-19HalifaxIIJD271NA:MMiddleton St George23:56LeipzigSee archive report for detailsMiARunnymede Memorial, Panel 256Paradie Archive Database
17006 WebbD J SergeantR110357RCAFBomber Command428Sqn RCAF
1943-07-13HalifaxVED209NA-CMiddleton St George2352AachenAbandoned near Marche-en-Famenne BelgiumEvader Paradie Archive Database
17007 WebbM GSergeantR101741RCAFBomber Command49Sqn
1943-06-16LancasterIIIED785EA-Fiskerton2211KolnShot down by Night Fighter 'ace'. Crashed SW Vlissingen Holland PoW Paradie Archive Database
17008 WebbStuart Douglas WebbFlight LieutenantJ/5122PilotRCAFBomber Command608Sqn
1944-11-10MosquitoB-XXKB3606T-HRAF Downham Market2155Hannover Maltmas Farm, Friday Bridge, Cambridgeshire KilledBrookwood Military Cemetery. Grave 51.A.2.Paradie Archive Database Read Archive Report
17009 WebbStuart DouglasFlight LieutenantJ5122CanadianPilotRCAFBomber Command608 Sqn
1944-08-23MosquitoXXKB2426T:?Downham Market21:35KolnAttacked four times by a fighter and, subsequently, crash-landed at 01:10, Woodbridge airfield, SuffolkSurvivedParadie Archive Database
17010 WebbFrancis ArthurWarrant Officer Class 2R934928th May 1922 in Manitoba, OntarioCanadaAir Gunner (Rear)RCAFBomber Command9Sqn
1943-01-17LancasterIW4157WS:VRAF Waddington, Lincolnshire16:58BerlinSee archive report for further details and photographsMiARunnymede Memorial. Panel. 180
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Paradie Archive Database
17011 WebbC WPilot OfficerRCAFBomber Command97Sqn (Straits Settlements)
1943-08-10LancasterIIIED939OF-MBourn2150Nurnberg?KilledDurnbach War CemeteryParadie Archive Database
17012 WebbHarry CyrilSergeant1578041Age 21BritishW/Op/Air/GnrRAFVRBomber Command427Sqn RCAF
1944-03-24HalifaxIIILW577ZL-KRAF Leeming, Yorkshire1845BerlinCrashed near Ahlen on returnKilledReichswald Forest War Cemetery Grave 31.F.6

Son of Howard Albert and Mary Adalaide Webb, of 3 Salton Street,Vauxhall, Warwickshire.
17013 WebbDerek JamesSergeantR/110337Age 21CanadaFlight EngineerRCAFBomber Command1659 HCU
1944-03-24HalifaxIIJD317RAF Topcliffe, North YorkshireDiversionCrashed Little Chalfont BucksInjuredParadie Archive DatabaseBorn in London, England on June 24, 1923. He moved to Canada in 1944 and settled in Vancouver in 1956. He moved to Richmond after her death in 1995 died peacefully at 04:10 hrs. on the 05th Jun 2002.
17014 WebberRodneySergeantR/106709Age 21USA (California)Air GunnerRCAFBomber Command158Sqn
1943-04-03HalifaxIIDT795NP-NRAF Lissett, Yorkshire1941EssenClaimed by Uffz.Emil Heinzelmann of 8./NJG1 Halifax DT795 at Wapenveld, 10km S Zwollow (Rheinsalm) at 4600m at 2350. Crashed at Wapenveld HollandKilledAmersfoort General Cemetery (Oud Leuesden). Plot 13. Row 5. Grave 96


Memorial at crash site

Paradie Archive Database
Excavation of crash site in Holland 2014


Of the crew of seven, only three crew members were officially accounted for, and are buried near Amersfoort. The other four were officially still Missing in Action, and remembered on the Runnymede memorial. However, a war grave at the local cemetery at Wapenveld contains the remains of 2 unidentified crew members that were recovered from the wreck in the weeks after the 1943 crash when the main wreckage was lifted from the canal. Now after 73 years all crew members will have a final resting place: Sgt. Thomas Victor Trollope (tailgunner, age 22), W/O Frederick Henry Blake (pilot, age 26) and WO2 Rodney Webber (gunner, age 21) had been identified in 1943 and are buried in Oud Leusden. Sgt. Philip Henry Eldridge (wireless operator, age 29), Sgt. William David Hawkins (navigator, age 23), Sgt. John Ceredig Jones (bombaimer, age 31) and Sgt. Gerard Stanley Walters (engineer, age 22) had been declared missing in 1943. Unidentified remains of 2 crew members found during recovery operations in 1943 have been buried in Wapenveld since 1943, but did not account for all four crew members. A further investigation and recovery effort shortly after the war did not produce any further remains. The 2014 full excavation did, and the BIDKL was then able to identify all four remaining missing crew members. They will be laid to rest in Wapenveld. The existing memorial headstone to the unknown RAF crewmember(s) that was erected by local villagers will be retained and joined by four CWGC headstones.

Born on the 01st June 1921 at Missoula, USA Son of Fred W. and Onia Webber. Of Bellingham, Washington, USA.

17015 WebberJ APilot OfficerRCAFBomber Command419Sqn RCAF
1944-05-12LancasterXKB713VR-XMiddleton St George2200LeuvenCrashed & exploded Reningo {West-Vlaanderen}KilledAdegem Canadian War CemeteryParadie Archive Database
17016 WebberW BFlight SergeantR117638RCAFBomber Command428Sqn RCAF
1943-07-13HalifaxVED209NA-CMiddleton St George2352AachenAbandoned near Marche-en-Famenne BelgiumPoW Paradie Archive Database
17017 WebberG SSergeantBomber Command431Sqn RCAF
1944-01-28HalifaxVLL150SE-NCroft2358BerlinBaled out off Lincolnshire coast
17018 WebberJ CSergeantBomber Command433Sqn RCAF
1944-01-20HalifaxIIIHX283BM-RSkipton on Swale2000MagdeburgKilledBerlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
17019 WeberWilfred EarlFlying OfficerJ/40810CanadianNavigatorRCAFBomber Command170Sqn
1945-03-05LancasterIII ME320TC-LHemswell1700ChemnitzShot down over target.KilledBody presumed to rest in one of the mass graves in Chemnitz, Germany. Commemorated Runnymede Memorial, Panel 280. United Kingdom.
Accident report
17020 WeberHarry ArthurSergeantR/116719Air/GnrRCAFBomber Command77Sqn
1943-10-22HalifaxIIJD121KN-DRAF Elvington, Yorkshire1802Kassel See archive report for further information KilledHanover War Cemetery Collective grave II. F.3-10Paradie Archive Database Read Archive Report
17021 WeberG RFlying OfficerPilotFighter403Sqn RCAF
1944-08-17SpitfireIXNH232RecceAbandoned near BernayEvaded
17022 WeberG RFlying OfficerPilotFighter416Sqn RCAF
1945-03-18SpitfireXVISM399Sweep
17023 WebleyLeslie Charles EdgarFlying OfficerJ/21610CanadianBomb AimerRCAFBomber Command431Sqn RCAF
1944-05-09HalifaxIIILK884SE-XCroft01:07Haine-St-PierreShot down by a nighf-fighter of IV./NJG1. Crashed Rance {Hainaut}KilledGosselies Communal Cemetery, Row 2. Coll. Grave 29-31. Belgium.
Accident report
17024 WebsterL WWarrant Officer Class 2RCAFBomber Command10Sqn
1945-03-05Halifax IIIMZ948ZA-EMelbourne1708ChemnitzKilledDurnbach War CemeteryParadie Archive Database
17025 WebsterG HPilot OfficerRCAFBomber Command214Sqn
1942-01-28WellingtonICX9890BU-StradishallMunster?KilledRunnymedeParadie Archive Database
17026 WebsterL PSergeantRCAFBomber Command419Sqn RCAF
1943-11-26HalifaxIILW242VR-NMiddleton St George1701StuttgartCrashed near Sankt IngbertKilledRheinberg War Cemetery
Paradie Archive Database
17027 WebsterW HSergeantRCAFBomber Command419Sqn RCAF
1942-05-17WellingtonIIIZ1562VR-NMildenhall2309Gardening?KilledRunnymedeParadie Archive Database
17028 WebsterLesterFlying OfficerJ/35507Age 28CanadaAir BomberRCAFBomber Command427Sqn RCAF
1945-02-21Halifax IIINR288ZL-FRAF Leeming, Yorkshire16:23WormsSee archive report foe further detailsKilledRheinberg War Cemetery. Grave 9.J.25

Paradie Archive DatabaseBorn on the 22nd January 1916 in Ontario, Canada. Son of Robert Henry Leopold Webster (died 24th October 1933, age 56) and Alma Florence Webster (née Walker - died in 1949 age 62) of 241 Wright Avenue, Sunderland, Ontario, Canada.
17029 WebsterR JFlying OfficerRCAFBomber Command429Sqn RCAF
1944-05-01HalifaxIIILW415AL-KLeeming2212St GhislainExploded & crashed Bevere-Meerschaert {Oost-Vlaanderen}KilledOudenaarde Communal CemeteryParadie Archive Database
17030 WebsterD APilot OfficerRCAFBomber Command75Sqn RNZAF
1941-11-07WellingtonIcX9951AA-FeltwellBerlin?PoW Paradie Archive Database
17031 WebsterKFlight Lieutenant110633Bomber Command427Sqn RCAF
1943-06-22HalifaxVDK225ZLLeeming2322MulheimCrashed West MijzenKilledBergen General Cemetery
17032 WebsterAlfred ErnestSquadron LeaderJ/4956CanadianNavigatorDFC
RCAF9 Transport Group168Sqn (RCAF)1945-11-04FortressII9202RAF Prestwick13:30Humanitarian transportStruck a tree and crashed whilst flying in the base of low cloud at about 1,000 feet ASL.KilledMunster Heath War Cemetery, 4. F. 21. Germany.Accident report
17033 WeedenG HFlying OfficerRCAFBomber Command617Sqn
1943-12-10LancasterIIIED825AJ-ETempsford2035SOECrashed Northern FranceKilledMaharicourt Communal Paradie Archive Database
17034 WeedonP GFlying OfficerJ10519RCAFBomber Command419Sqn RCAF
1943-05-23HalifaxIIBB384VR-Middleton St George2301DortmundCrash landed Dinsdale on return Paradie Archive Database
17035 WeedonJames Frederick GladstoneSergeantR1969907th June 1916 in Kisbey, SaskatchewanCanadaWireless Operator/Air GunnerRCAFBomber Command426Sqn RCAF
1944-11-01HalifaxVIINP771OW:JRAF Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire17:23OberhausenSee archive report for full detailsKiAVenray War Cemetery. Grave VI.F.9Paradie Archive Database
17036 WeedyR CWarrant OfficerR87956RCAFBomber Command419Sqn RCAF
1943-05-12HalifaxIJB861VR-CMiddleton St George2314DuisburgCrashed near ZuidlandKilledRotterdam (Crooswijk) Paradie Archive Database
17037 WeekesNeville OswaldSergeant413700AustraliaRAAF32 OTU RCAF1943-10-09RAAF Honour Roll
17038 WeeksWylie MurrayFlight LieutenantC125792nd June 1914 in West Amherst, Nova ScotiaCanadianPilotRCAF2nd Tactical Air Force182Sqn
1944-11-29TyphoonIbPD552XM:?ALG B.78 Eindhoven, Netherlands15:50Armed Reconnaissance, GermanySee archive report for detailsKiAEindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery Plot KK. Grave 234.Paradie Archive Database
17039 WeeksD F CSergeantRCAFBomber Command419Sqn RCAF
1944-04-18HalifaxIIJP202VR-TMiddleton St George2037GardeningCrashed at NymindegabKilledRunnymede Paradie Archive Database
17040 WeeksW GFlight LieutenantJ15548RCAFBomber Command428Sqn RCAF
1943-07-13HalifaxVDK228NA-DMiddleton St George2338AachenCrashed Mesnil-St-Blaise BelgiumKilledFlorennes Communal Paradie Archive Database
17041 WeepersDavid JamesFlying OfficerJ2884510 August 1917 at Galt, Ontario, CanadaCanadianNavigatorRCAFBomber Command625 Sqn
1944-05-21LancasterIIILM513CF:YRAF Kelstern, Lincolnshire21:58DuisburgShot down by night fighter , crashed near Meer, Antwerp, BelgiumPoWParadie Archive Database

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17042 WeeseR APilot OfficerJ17467RCAFBomber Command166Sqn
1943-03-29WellingtonXHE545AS-HKirmington2004BochumCrashed NNW of ArnhemKilledGrooesbeek War CemeteryParadie Archive Database
17043 WegenastW AFlight SergeantRCAFBomber Command1666 CU
1945-01-14LancasterIHK756ND-WombletonSweepstakeLost without traceKilledRunnymedeParadie Archive Database
17044 WeickerC HFlight SergeantRCAFBomber Command100Sqn
1945-03-16LancasterIII PB117HW-DGrimsby1723NurnbergKilledDurnbach War CemeteryParadie Archive Database
17045 WeickerC MFlying OfficerRCAFBomber Command429Sqn RCAF
1943-11-18HalifaxIIJD275AL-TLeeming1629Mannheim?PoWParadie Archive Database
17046 WeighA FSergeantBomber Command428Sqn RCAF
1943-11-03HalifaxVLK954NA-EMiddleton St George1647DusseldorfCrashed South Kyme LincsKilled
17047 WeighallFrancis ChurchillSergeantR87391CanadianAir Gunner (Rear)RCAFBomber Command142Sqn
1942-08-27WellingtonIVZ1338QT:DRAF Grimsby, Lincolnshire20:30KasselSee archive report for detailsPoW No: 26863, Stalag 344Paradie Archive Database
17048 WeilerNorman HFlying OfficerJ18604CanadaAGRCAFBomber Command405Sqn RCAF
1943-04-30HalifaxIIDT741LQ-PGransden Lodge.0008.EssenHit by flak and Nightfighter of II / NJG-1 -. Crashed OosterhoutPoW Poland
Paradie Archive Database
Lincoln Journal Star, 1945-05-22
17049 WeinHSergeant1391852Bomber Command408Sqn RCAF
1943-03-27HalifaxIIBB332EQ-HLeeming2000BerlinCrashed Blindberg SwedenInterned
17050 WeirAlexander CuthbertFlight SergeantR/123705Air/GnrRCAFBomber Command102Sqn (Ceylon)
1943-04-20HalifaxIIDT747DY-PRAF Pocklington, Yorkshire2120StettinSee archive report for further informationKilledEsbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery. Collective grave A.10.10-15Paradie Archive Database Read Archive Report

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