R154427 – F/S – 49 Squadron – Lancaster JB545 (EA-O)- KIA 16 December 1943

Buried in the General Cemetery in Wolvega (Weststellingwerf) in the Netherlands.

See the Canadian Virtual War Memorial (CVWM) for more pictures of gravestone and letter.

[Courtesy AD]

Details about the crash of Lancaster JB545 on TracesOfWar with pictures of a commemorative monument in Sonnega (NL): “On 16 December 1943 Lancaster JB545 was on a mission to Berlin with 496 other bombers. The Lancaster was attacked by German fighters and crashed near the De Linde stream. All seven crew were killed. They were buried in the General Cemetery in Wolvega.”

[Source: Traces of War]

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1425107 – 158689 – Pilot Officer – Pilot – Gordon Lennox Ratcliffe – RAFVR – Age 23 – KIA
1580024 – Sergeant – Navigator – Edward Holloway – RAFVR – Age 25 – KIA
1313451 – Sergeant – W.Operator / Air Gunner – William Thomas Rees – RAFVR – Age 23 – KIA
1214303 – Sergeant – Flight Engineer – Albert Edgar “Arthur” Marsland – RAFVR – KIA
1452920 – Sergeant – Bomb Aimer – Wilfred Robert Day – RAFVR – Age 20 – KIA
R/154427 – Flight Sergeant – Air Gunner – Ricardo “Richard” Losa – RCAF – Age 27 – KIA
423760 – Flight Sergeant – Air Gunner – Bede James Veitch King – RAAF – Age 19 – KIA

[Source: SGLO, www.teunispats.nl]

[Sources: RCAF Casuality list 792, CWGC, courtesy Alieneyes]