Crashlocation Lancaster W4272 - IJsselmeer

Crash site Lancaster W4272 - IJsselmeer

In the night of February 15-16, 1944 Lancaster W4272 took off at 5.40 pm from Mildenhall airfield in County Suffolk in England. On its way back from Berlin at 11.33 pm, the plane was shot out of the air by a German Messerschmitt Bf 110 night fighter from Leeuwarden airport and crashed into the IJsselmeer, approximately 1 kilometer off the coast near the marina in Andijk.

The crew consisted of:
Trevor Llewellyn Griffiths, Captain, Royal Australian Air Force, pilot, 21 years old (killed)
Harold Morral, Royal Air Force Sergeant Major, co-pilot, age 21 (killed)
Frank Edward Walter Chapman, Royal Air Force Sergeant, flight engineer, age 19 (killed)
Robert Clifton Taylor, First Lieutenant Royal Canadian Air Force, navigator, age 24 (missing)
Basil John Allen, Royal Air Force Sergeant, bomb aimer, (missing)
John William Griffiths, Royal Air Force sergeant, radio operator, 23 years old (missing)
Phillip William Wright, Royal Air Force sergeant, dorsal turret gunner, age 23 (missing)
Clifford Althea Brown, Royal Air Force Sergeant, tail turret gunner, (killed)

Griffiths, Morral and Chapman were buried at the Wester Cemetery in Andijk.
Tail-cupola Brown was buried in Wervershoof and was reburied in 1984 on the plot of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Groesbeek.

The four remaining crewmembers are still missing.

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Source

• Text: http://www.oorlogsmonumentenmedemblik.nl
• Photos: Ton Goedhart