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#	Name*	First Names	Rank	Service No.	Born	Nationality	Role	Awards	Air Force	Command	Unit	DateofIncident *See Note	Aircraft	Type	Serial	Code	Victories (Fighters)	Base	Time	Mission	Incident	Fate	Commemorated	Photo (Click to Expand)	Referring Database	Notes	Links/Archive Reports
301	Andrews	J W	Pilot Officer	J18204					RCAF	Bomber Command	35Sqn (Madras Presidency)	1943-06-21	Halifax	II	BB361	TL-V		Graveley	2347	Krefeld	?	Killed	Runnymede		Paradie Archive Database
302	Andrews	D R	Pilot Officer						RCAF	Coastal Command	415Sqn RCAF	1944-07-28	Halifax	III	MZ686	6U-U		East Moor	2218	Hamburg	Crashed on take off				Paradie Archive Database
303	Andrews	E J	Flying Officer						RCAF	Bomber Command	420Sqn RCAF	1944-05-27	Halifax	III	MZ502	PT-U		Tholthorpe	2334	Bourg-Leopold	Crashed Overpelt {Limburg}	Killed	Heverlee War Cemetery Belgium		Paradie Archive Database
304	Andrews	D J	Flying Officer						RCAF	Bomber Command	426Sqn RCAF	1945-01-16	Halifax	VII	NP795	OW-T		Linton on Ouse	1835	Magdeburg	Tyre burst on take off				Paradie Archive Database
305	Andrews	Edward Joseph	Flying Officer	J/14390					RCAF	Bomber Command	428Sqn RCAF	1943-08-02	Halifax	V	EB274	NA-H		Middleton St George	2247	Hamburg	Shot down by Hpt. Hans Jabs	Killed	Runnymede		Paradie Archive Database	Attacker Paradie Archive
306	Andrews	W	Flight Sergeant	R104347					RCAF	Bomber Command	51Sqn	1943-06-24	Halifax	II	JD250	MH-R		Snaith	2313	Wuppertal	Crashed off Noordwijk Holland	Killed	Runnymede		Paradie Archive Database
307	Andrews	W H	Flight Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	57Sqn	1944-01-28	Lancaster	III	JB311	DX-B		East Kirkby	2342	Berlin		Killed	Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery		Paradie Archive Database
308	Andrews	R A	Sergeant							Bomber Command	405Sqn RCAF	1943-08-02	Halifax	II	HR871	LQ-B		Gransden Lodge	2258	Hamburg	Abandoned over Swedish territory	Interned
309	Andrews	J M	Sergeant							Coastal Command	415Sqn RCAF	1945-04-10	Halifax	III	NA185	6U-B		East Moor	1347	Leipzig		Killed	Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery
310	Andrews	J M	Sergeant							Coastal Command	415Sqn RCAF	1945-02-08	Halifax	III	NR249	6U-J		East Moor	256	Wanne-Eickel
311	Angelini	Samuel	Flying Officer	J/37114		Canadian	Pilot		RCAF	2 TAF	439Sqn RCAF	1945-01-01	Typhoon	Ib	MN589	5V-B		B.78 Eindhoven NL	09:45	Armed recce	Shot down by enemy fighter	Killed	Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery XV. D. 7, NL		Accident report		Paradie RCAF database
312	Angell	J L	Sergeant							Bomber Command	405Sqn RCAF	1941-06-16	Wellington	Ic	W5522	LQ-Q		Pocklington	2303	Koln	?	Killed
313	Angers	J A A A B	Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	419Sqn RCAF	1942-06-16	Wellington	III	X3359	VR-N		Mildenhall	2355	Essen	Crashed near Wuustwezel	Evader			Paradie Archive Database
314	Anglin	William Sherron	Warrant Officer	R/95701			Air/Gnr		RCAF	Bomber Command	429Sqn RCAF	1943-05-29	Wellington	X	HZ471	AL-M		RAF East Moor, North Yorkshire	2236	Wuppertal	See archive report for further details	Missing - believed killed	Runnymede Memorial Panel 179		Paradie Archive Database	Read Archive Report
315	Angus	D C B	Sergeant							Bomber Command	405Sqn RCAF	1943-08-17	Halifax	II	HR817	LQ-C		Gransden Lodge		Peenemunde	Shot down near Flensburg	Killed	Kiel War Cemetery
316	Angus	Jack Wilson	Flight Sergeant	1553115			Air Gunner (Rear)		RAFVR	Bomber Command	78 Sqn	1944-06-07	Halifax	III	MZ577	EY:O		Breighton	22:50	Juvisy sur Orge Rail Communications	Claim by Oblt Jakob Schaus 4./NJG4 – W-SW-S of Paris (AD-AE-BD-BE): 1,800m at 01:16. (Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1944 Part 3 -Theo Boiten). Crashed 4km South of Lieusaint.	PoW, No. 78390, Buchenwald/PoW No. 8074, Stalag Luft 3				Whilst evading he was betrayed and arrested by the Gestapo then and taken to the Fresnes prison located to the south of Paris. This was were French political prisoners were held and ordinarily Allied airmen, after questioning, were moved to a PoW Camp. In the summer of 1944, with the Allies having liberated Paris and closing in, the Gestapo guards started reducing the prison population by execution, and then relocating surviving prisoners to various concentration camps east of France. On the 15th August 1944 he was one of 169 Allied PoWs and hundreds of French men and women who were packed into a freight train and transported to Buchenwald concentration camp on a journey lasting five days. Note: Fg Off. J.M. Stevenson C27788 RCAF escaped from the train and successfully evaded. Buchenwald was located 8 km north of Weimar, in the German province of Thüringen. Sqn Ldr. Lamason and Fg Off. Chapman succeeded in getting all but two of the Allied PoWs transferred to Stalag Luft 3. Two airmen, 1st Lt. Levitt Clinton Beck Jr. O-736945, US AAF and Fg Off. Philip Derek Hermmens, 152583, RAFVR, died in the camp hospital.
317	Annable	H C	Flight Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	419Sqn RCAF	1944-09-18	Lancaster	X	KB735	VR-O		Middleton St George	1534	Walcheren	Crash landed at East Moor on return				Paradie Archive Database
318	Annand	G R	Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	428Sqn RCAF	1943-09-23	Halifax	V	DK271	NA-Q		Middleton St George	1857	Mannheim	Crashed Geinsheim	PoW			Paradie Archive Database
319	Annis	L D	Warrant Officer Class 2						RCAF	Bomber Command	405Sqn RCAF	1944-01-14	Lancaster	III	JA974	LQ-V		Gransden Lodge	1707	Braunschweig		Killed	Hannover War Cemetery		Paradie Archive Database
320	Annis	L D	Sergeant	R100619					RCAF	Bomber Command	420Sqn RCAF	1943-04-26	Wellington	X	HE771	PT-		Croft		Duisburg	Crashed on return to base	Injured			Paradie Archive Database
321	Ansell	R F	Sergeant							Bomber Command	405Sqn RCAF	1942-06-27	Halifax	II	W1175	LQ-Q		Pocklington	2332	Bremen	Presumed lost over the sea	Killed	Runnymede
322	Ansley	D	Sergeant	1183277						Bomber Command	419Sqn RCAF	1943-03-28	Halifax	II	BB283	VR-O		Middleton St George	1940	St-Nazaire	Shot down near Nantes France	Killed	Escoublac la Baule War Cemetery
323	Anthony	A H	Flight Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	405Sqn RCAF	1943-08-10	Lancaster	III	JA920	LQ-E		Gransden Lodge	2205	Nurnberg	Crashed at base on return				Paradie Archive Database
324	Anthony	K	Pilot Officer				Pilot			Fighter	403Sqn RCAF	1941-08-19	Spitfire	V	R7342	K				Circus 81	Failed to return	PoW
325	Antonek	C J	Flight Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	424Sqn RCAF	1945-03-05	Lancaster	I	NG458	QB-H		Skipton on Swale	1642	Chemnitz		PoW			Paradie Archive Database
326	Anweiler	R R	Flying Officer						RCAF	Bomber Command	158Sqn	1945-02-21	Halifax	III	NR177	NP-W		Lissett	1706	Worms	Crashed at Odenbach	PoW			Paradie Archive Database
327	Aplin	W G J	Sergeant	1314645						Bomber Command	429Sqn RCAF	1943-03-29	Wellington	III	BJ920	AL-		East Moor	1947	Bochum	Crashed target area	Killed	Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
328	Aplin	J H	Sergeant							Bomber Command	432Sqn RCAF	1944-01-14	Lancaster	II	DS850	QO-M		East Moor	1703	Braunschweig	Crashed near Nordhorn	Killed	Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
329	Aplin	J	Sergeant							Bomber Command	432Sqn RCAF	1943-12-02	Lancaster	II	DS851	QO-D		East Moor	1706	Berlin	Crashed on return to base
330	Apperley	N H	Sergeant	1337474						Bomber Command	431Sqn RCAF	1943-07-03	Wellington	X	LN284	SE-Q		Burn	2300	Koln	Crashed near target	Killed	Rheinberg War Cemetery
331	Apperley	H H	Sergeant							Bomber Command	431Sqn RCAF	1943-06-11	Wellington	X	HF543	SE-P		Burn	2325	Dusseldorf	Landed at Oulton and collided with next
332	Apperson	Maxwell Warnock	Sergeant	534437	1918		Flight Engineer		RAF	Bomber Command	405Sqn RCAF	1942-07-23	Halifax	II	W7769	LQ-K		Pocklington	37	Duisburg	Just before 0500 the a/c was in the circuit of Pocklington airfield prior to landing when the port outer engine failed. This failure was due to a coolant leak which led to the engine overheating. Around the moment the engine caught fire the flight engineer assumed that the failure was down to a fuel supply shortage to the engine so switched the fuel cocks that supplied the fuel to both port engines. This resulted in the port inner engine's fuel supply being cut off. The a/c swung, and the port wing dropped causing a loss of control resulting in the a/c diving into the ground. It crashed into houses and then the school on New Street in Pocklington. (Aircraft Accidents in Yorkshire)	Killed	Barmby on the Moor (St Catherine) Churchyard Row F Grave 1.
333	Appleby	J R	Sergeant							Bomber Command	408Sqn RCAF	1942-01-15	Hampden	I	AE393	EQ-G		Balderton	1715	Hamburg	Crashed at Howgill Scar	Killed
334	Applegarth	T A	Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	57Sqn	1944-06-21	Lancaster	III	LM580	DX-L		East Kirkby	2307	Wesseling	Crashed at As-en-Campine {Limburg}	PoW			Paradie Archive Database
335	Applegate	Ernest Arthur	Flight Sergeant	R/103626		Canadian	Air Gunner		RCAF	Bomber Command	12Sqn	1943-04-11	Lancaster	III	ED714	PH-		Wickenby		Bombing	Mid air collision with 103 Sqn Lancaster I W4828	Killed	Le Mans West Cemetery, Plot 38. 1939-45 Row B. Grave 8. France.		Accident report		Paradie RCAF Database
336	Applin	D J	Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	419Sqn RCAF	1944-06-12	Lancaster	X	KB731	VR-S		Middleton St George	2140	Cambrai	Crashed near Vieux-Berquin {Nord}	Killed	Vieux-Berguin Communal Cemetery		Paradie Archive Database
337	Apps	Geoffrey Frank Rowe	Flight Lieutenant	J/20673		Canadian	Pilot		RCAF	Eastern Air Command	11Sqn RCAF	1945-02-19	Liberator	VI	3715	F		RCAF Dartmouth, Nova Scotia		Anti-Submarine	Failed to return, crashed at sea	Missing	Ottawa Memorial, Panel 4. Column 2. Canada.		Accident report		Paradie RCAF Database
338	Arbic	H C	Sergeant	R/90583			Wireless Operator		RCAF	Bomber Command	156Sqn	1942-12-20	Wellington	III	Z1660	GT-		Warboys	1802	Duisburg	Coned by 3/Flakscheinw Abt 409. Hit by lei Heimat 22/VI. (Nachtjagd Combat Archives The Early Years Part 3 - Theo Boiten)	PoW No. 27338, Stalag 344 Lamsdorf			Paradie Archive Database
339	Arbour	J E J G	Flight Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	426Sqn RCAF	1944-05-12	Halifax	III	LW682	OW-M		Linton on Ouse	2211	Leuven	Crashed Schendelbeke {oost-Vlaanderen}	Killed	Geraardsbergen Communal Cemetery		Paradie Archive Database	Read Archive Report
340	Arbuckle	I	Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	405Sqn RCAF	1942-10-15	Halifax	II	W7854	LQ-T		Topcliffe	1855	Koln	Crashed Waterloo SSE of Brussels	Killed	Brussels Town Cemetery		Paradie Archive Database
341	Arcand	J J R	Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	425Sqn RCAF	1945-03-15	Halifax	III	PN172	KW-G		Tholthorpe	1730	Hagen		Killed	Hotton War Cemetery		Paradie Archive Database	First French Canadian squadron
342	Archambault	J R	Flight Sergeant	R108014					RCAF	Bomber Command	408Sqn RCAF	1943-06-21	Halifax	II	DT772	EQ-E		Leeming	2340	Krefeld	Crashed Zeist Holland	Killed	Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) Gen Cemetery		Paradie Archive Database
343	Archer	J C	Flight Sergeant	R141130					RCAF	Bomber Command	408Sqn RCAF	1943-05-04	Halifax	II	HR658	EQ-V		Leeming	2240	Dortmund	?	Killed	Runnymede		Paradie Archive Database
344	Archer	W E	Flight Sergeant						RCAF	Bomber Command	424Sqn RCAF	1945-01-12	Halifax	III	LV998	QB-Y		Skipton on Swale	1724	Gardening		Killed	Runnymede		Paradie Archive Database
345	Archer	R W	Flying Officer						RCAF	Bomber Command	550Sqn	1944-07-28	Lancaster	III	LM455	BQ-T		North Killingholme	2127	Stuttgart	Crashed at Blamont {Meurthe-et-Moselle}	Killed	Blamont Communal Cemetery		Paradie Archive Database
346	Archer	Phillip Leslie Irving	Squadron Leader	J3508	10th February 1917 in Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies	Barbados	Pilot	DFC	RCAF	Fighter	421 (Red Indian) Sqn RCAF	1943-06-17	Spitfire	IX	LZ996	AU:?	6	Redhill		Rodeo	Shot down by JG26 Fw190 near St. Omar, France	KiA	Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Plot 8. Row A. Grave 1. France	Montreal - 13 February 1940 Memorial Courtesy of Paul Standing		Spitfire IIA R7195 - 9th July 1941 Spitfire VB W3330 - 21st August 1941 DFC awarded to Acting Flt Lt. Archer whilst with 416 Sqn, RCAF. London Gazette 11th September 1942. Citation: "Acting Flight Lieutenant Phillip Leslie Irving ARCHER (Can/J.3508), Royal Canadian Air Force, No. 416 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron. This officer has completed a large number of sorties over enemy territory and has destroyed at least 4 enemy aircraft. On one occasion, although wounded in the leg, Flight Lieutenant Archer flew his badly damaged aircraft back to base where he executed a skilful landing. He is a most efficient leader." He was possibly on his last sortie as CO of 402 Sqn, RCAF before taking over 421 Sqn, RCAF He flew 182.05 operational hours and 76 sorties over enemy territory Son of Frederic Leslie (deceased in May 1937) and Millicent Beryl (née Philips) Archerr, of Hastings St. Michael, Barbados. B. Sc.
347	Archer	Philip Leslie Irving	Pilot Officer	J3508	10th February 1917 in Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies	Barbados	Pilot		RCAF	Fighter	92 Sqn	1941-07-09	Spitfire	IIa	R7195	QJ:?		Biggin Hill		Sweep	Aircraft damaged by Bf109. Spitfire was repaired	Safe		Montreal - 13th February 1940		Spitfire VB W3330 - 21st August 1941 Spitfire IX LZ996 - 17th June 1943
348	Archer	Philip Leslie Irving	Pilot Officer	J3508	10th February 1917 in Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies	Barbados	Pilot		RCAF	Fighter	92 Sqn	1941-08-21	Spitfire	Vb	W3330	QJ:?		Biggin Hill		Sweep	Slightly wounded in legs during combat with a Bf109. Spitfire was repaired	WiA		Montreal - 13th February 1940		Spitfire IIA R7195 - 9th July 1941 Spitfire IX LZ996 - 17th June 1943
349	Archer	Elwood W	Sergeant				Air Gunner (Rear)			Bomber Command	434 (Bluenose) Sqn RCAF	1944-08-07	Halifax	III	LW176	WL:J		Croft	20:32	la Hogue Strong Point	On take off the aircraft swung out of control and hit another Squadron aircraft LK799 WL:E before crashing through a brick wall. No injuries reported.	Uninjured
350	Archibald	L P	Pilot Officer						RCAF	Bomber Command	426Sqn RCAF	1943-12-16	Lancaster	II	DS846	OW-X		Linton on Ouse	1622	Berlin	Crashed near Verden	Killed	Hannover War Cemetery		Paradie Archive Database