Lumbres

Date

1 September 1944

Target

Lumbres

Force dispatched

121 aircraft

Sortie details (which aircraft from which squadron, which crew flew, the outcome) will populate this page once the TNA AIR 27 squadron-diary importer arrives.

The fallen

41 airmen in this archive died on 1 September 1944 or the day that followed. For a raid of this kind these are overwhelmingly the night's losses, though a death-date match is not by itself proof an individual flew this operation.

• Flight Sergeant Robert Alexander Ashton (22)
• Lieutenant Bain-marais (22)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Hugh Barclay (19)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Edward Barnes (20)
• Pilot Officer Douglas John Black (24)
• Flying Officer James E. Brown (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Harold John Callin (23)
• Lieutenant Donald Maxwell Cameron (20)
• Flight Sergeant Stuart George Catto (21)
• Flying Officer Leslie Russell Corney (22)
• Flying Officer Alexander Cruickshank (24)
• Squadron Leader John Terence Joseph Davis (23)
• Flying Officer James Lyman Eagleson (21)
• Chaplain The Rev. Hilford Charles Easton (30)
• Sergeant Leslie Albert Gibbs (27)
• Leading Aircraftman William Thomas Whitelaw Girvan (22)
• Pilot Officer Morrison Carlyle Grant (21)
• Pilot Officer Jack Robert Greenaway (24)
• Lieutenant Griessel
• Flying Officer Robert Blackburn Hardie (34)
• Flight Sergeant Stuart James Hayes (19)
• Lieutenant Impey (20)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley George Jacobs (20)
• Warrant Officer Gordon Sydney James King (34)

See all 41 who died on 1 September →

Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →