405 Squadron's Pathfinder Force Avro Lancaster (#JA976) aircraft, on an air operation over Montzen, Belgium, was shot down by a German night fighter and crashed near Webbekom in Belgium. Seven of the eight aircrew perished in the attack and resulting crash.
The casualties of this attack were-
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Arnold ALLEN DFC,
RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Alexander BOOTH,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant James Sydney BRADLEY,
RCAF Pilot Officer Nicholas Hugh CLIFFORD,
RCAF Pilot Officer Leslie Arthur FOSTER,
RCAF Flight Lieutenant David RAMSAY DFC and
RCAF Flight Lieutenant George John SMITH.
The only survivor, the pilot RCAF Squadron Leader Edward ('TEDDY') Weyman BLENKINSOP DFC, joined the underground; he was later captured and imprisoned, dying of tuberculosis in the Belsen Concentration Camp.
Military Service:
Rank: Pilot Officer
Trade: Air Gunner
Service Number: J/87453
Age: 35
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 405 'City of Vancouver' RCAF Squadron, Pathfinder Force; Gransdon Lodge (No. 8 Group base) in Cambridgeshire
[MOTTO: Ducimus ('We Lead")]
A sheetmetal worker by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 16 Oct 1939 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Nicholas A. and Sarah J. Clifford of Hamilton.
Pilot Officer Nicholas Hugh Clifford is commemorated on Page 275 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The casualties of this attack were-
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Arnold ALLEN DFC,
RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Alexander BOOTH,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant James Sydney BRADLEY,
RCAF Pilot Officer Nicholas Hugh CLIFFORD,
RCAF Pilot Officer Leslie Arthur FOSTER,
RCAF Flight Lieutenant David RAMSAY DFC and
RCAF Flight Lieutenant George John SMITH.
The only survivor, the pilot RCAF Squadron Leader Edward ('TEDDY') Weyman BLENKINSOP DFC, joined the underground; he was later captured and imprisoned, dying of tuberculosis in the Belsen Concentration Camp.
Military Service:
Rank: Pilot Officer
Trade: Air Gunner
Service Number: J/87453
Age: 35
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 405 'City of Vancouver' RCAF Squadron, Pathfinder Force; Gransdon Lodge (No. 8 Group base) in Cambridgeshire
[MOTTO: Ducimus ('We Lead")]
A sheetmetal worker by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 16 Oct 1939 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Nicholas A. and Sarah J. Clifford of Hamilton.
Pilot Officer Nicholas Hugh Clifford is commemorated on Page 275 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
405 Squadron's Pathfinder Force Avro Lancaster (#JA976) aircraft, on an air operation over Montzen, Belgium, was shot down by a German night fighter and crashed near Webbekom in Belgium. Seven of the eight aircrew perished in the attack and resulting crash.
The casualties of this attack were-
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Arnold ALLEN DFC,
RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Alexander BOOTH,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant James Sydney BRADLEY,
RCAF Pilot Officer Nicholas Hugh CLIFFORD,
RCAF Pilot Officer Leslie Arthur FOSTER,
RCAF Flight Lieutenant David RAMSAY DFC and
RCAF Flight Lieutenant George John SMITH.
The only survivor, the pilot RCAF Squadron Leader Edward ('TEDDY') Weyman BLENKINSOP DFC, joined the underground; he was later captured and imprisoned, dying of tuberculosis in the Belsen Concentration Camp.
Military Service:
Rank: Pilot Officer
Trade: Air Gunner
Service Number: J/87453
Age: 35
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 405 'City of Vancouver' RCAF Squadron, Pathfinder Force; Gransdon Lodge (No. 8 Group base) in Cambridgeshire
[MOTTO: Ducimus ('We Lead")]
A sheetmetal worker by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 16 Oct 1939 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Nicholas A. and Sarah J. Clifford of Hamilton.
Pilot Officer Nicholas Hugh Clifford is commemorated on Page 275 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The casualties of this attack were-
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Arnold ALLEN DFC,
RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Alexander BOOTH,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant James Sydney BRADLEY,
RCAF Pilot Officer Nicholas Hugh CLIFFORD,
RCAF Pilot Officer Leslie Arthur FOSTER,
RCAF Flight Lieutenant David RAMSAY DFC and
RCAF Flight Lieutenant George John SMITH.
The only survivor, the pilot RCAF Squadron Leader Edward ('TEDDY') Weyman BLENKINSOP DFC, joined the underground; he was later captured and imprisoned, dying of tuberculosis in the Belsen Concentration Camp.
Military Service:
Rank: Pilot Officer
Trade: Air Gunner
Service Number: J/87453
Age: 35
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 405 'City of Vancouver' RCAF Squadron, Pathfinder Force; Gransdon Lodge (No. 8 Group base) in Cambridgeshire
[MOTTO: Ducimus ('We Lead")]
A sheetmetal worker by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 16 Oct 1939 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Nicholas A. and Sarah J. Clifford of Hamilton.
Pilot Officer Nicholas Hugh Clifford is commemorated on Page 275 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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