Lancaster W4840 Memorial

Shot down at 2016hrs 3rd January 1943 by a german night fighter near the steam pumping station Overhagense Weide at Velp, Netherlands.

 

Crew:-

Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Douglas Herbert Scott Lonsdale DFC RAFVR 61283 [Killed]

 

Flight Engineer : Sergeant Albert Thomas Riley RAFVR 1253689 [Killed]

 

Navigator : Flying Officer Kenneth Read Smith RCAF J/8603 [Killed]

 

Bomb Aimer : Sergeant James Ivor Morris RAFVR 1152974 [Killed]

 

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Warrant Officer Class II Robert Richmond Moore RCAF R/87868 [Killed]

 

Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Arthur Douglas Smitherman RAFVR 1334611 [Killed]

 

Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Robert Lloyd Dickie RCAF R/97638 [Killed]

Done