Campbell, Roy

Date of birth:: July 13th, 1923 (Edmonton/Alberta, Canada)
Date of death:: February 21st, 1945 (Helenaveen/North-Brabant, Netherlands)
Buried on:: Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: XV. Row: D. Grave: 13.
Service number:: J/94275
Nationality:: Canadian

Biography

Pilot Officer
Royal Canadian Air Force
50 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

At 5:02 p.m. on Wednesday, February 21, 1944, the Avro Lancaster MK I, LL741 VN-X took off with its crew for its sixteenth mission from Royal Air Force base Skellingthorpe. Peter Gordon Anderson was the pilot and along with his crew they joined about 165 other Avro Lancasters and twelve Mosquitos of No. 5 Group, this for a mission to bomb the Mittelland Canal in Germany, Gravenhorst in North Rhine-Westphalia. At about 8:37 p.m., the Avro Lancaster MK I, LL741, UN-X 14, dropped 1000-pounders over German territory. Shortly thereafter, they would likely be hit by FLAK (Flugabwehrkanone or Fliegerabwehrkanone).
The plane began the return trip with all engines still working properly. At about 9:12 p.m., near Deurne at 7,000 feet, the Avro Lancaster was fired upon by Hauptmann Heinz Rokker of Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 (NJG 2), who fired at the cockpit on both sides.
Around 9:15 p.m., the Avro Lancaster MKI, LL741, VN-X crashed between Griendtsveen and Helenaveen. Roy Campbell was killed in the crash.

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