Date of birth:

July 25th, 1921 (Toronto/Ontario, Canada)

Date of death:

July 22nd, 1944 (Boxtel/North Brabant, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: XVI. Row: D. Grave: 1.

Service number:

J/29515

Nationality:

Canadian

Flying Officer (navigator)
Royal Canadian Air Force
90 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

On Saturday 22 July 1944 at 01.40 hrs the AVRO Lancaster Mk I LM183 shot down by Heinz-Wolfgang Schnauffer of the army unit IV./NJG1 flying a Bf 110 G-4 from airfield St Trond (Sint-Truiden) in Belgium. The plane crashed 2 kilometres south of Boxtel in a meadow on the Mijlstraat.
The aircraft had taken off from Tuddenham airfield at 23:13 the previous evening for a bombing raid on the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil plant near Meerbeck in Germany.
All seven crew members, five British and two Canadians, were killed.

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