PB768 XH

Avro Lancaster I

Code letters	XH
Squadron	No. 218 Squadron (Gold Coast)
Mark	I
Fate	Lost on operations
Lost	1 January 1945

A Avro Lancaster (representative type, not this airframe) — Representative photo of a Avro Lancaster — not this individual aircraft.
ⓘ licence & credit
Cpl Phil Major ABIPP / OGL v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Britain_Memorial_flight_Avro_Lancaster_(cropped).jpg

Notes

Hit by flak over Vohwinkel at 21,000 ft on 1 January 1945, then struck twice by American anti-aircraft fire over Namur on the way home; the port side caught fire and the Lancaster spun in at Emines. One man survived, injured.

Operations flown

Operation Vohwinkel (1 January 1945) — Failed to return

Crew: G Ingram (Bomb aimer) · Leslie Peckett (Flight engineer) · Edward Percival Buttrum-gardiner (Mid-upper gunner) · Hugh Clements (Navigator) · Robert Garfield Grivell (Pilot) · Royston Elvin Keel (Rear gunner) · Kenneth Bennett (Wireless operator)