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207 Squadron Royal Air Force Association101 Squadron & The Wesseling Raid
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101 Sqn Lancaster I ME613 SR-M2
Op: Wesseling t/o 2314 Ludford Magna on ABC duties - F/O SW Cook RCAF
Crashed at Drunen (Noord-Brabant), a large village 3 km E of Waalwijk, Holland. F/O Cook RCAF, who came from Santa Fe in Tennessee, is buried in the Canadian section of Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery while the others who died rest at Jonkerbos War Cemetery. Sgt Jagger was the specialist operator.
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Spencer Waddy Cook RCAF age 34 F/E Sgt AC Peyton, pow Nav Sgt John Stevens Francis RAFVR age 20 B/A F/L WE Lockwood pow W/Op Sgt Albert Ernest Holmes RAFVR age 20 W/Op Sgt Donald Jagger RAFVR age 19 M/U Sgt JM Starr RCAF pow R/G F/O MG Gillespie RCAF pow |
Bergen-op-Zoom
Canadian War Cemetery Jonkerbos War Cemetery Jonkerbos War Cemetery Jonkerbos War Cemetery |
101 Sqn Lancaster III LH508 SR-P
Op: Wesseling t/o 2317 Ludford Magna similarly tasked - P/O G Hingley
On the home leg, shot down by a night-fighter and crashed in the Biesbosch estuary near Werkendam (Noord-Brabant), 20 km NNE of Oosterhout. Of the two who died, F/S Duff rests in Werkendam Protestant Cemetery but Sgt Keogh has no known grave. P/O Hingley landed on a bridge and was admitted to hospital with a broken thigh bone.
Pilot P/O G Hingley pow
F/E Sgt SD Rogerson pow
Nav F/O TW Ball pow
B/A F/S
Thomas Handley Duff RAFVR age 22
W/Op Sgt LVH Horrigan pow
W/Op Sgt F Sheard pow
M/U Sgt J Gascoigne pow
R/G Sgt
John Edward Keogh RAFVR age 30