| The three RAAF lads that were killed on 7th May 1944 and buried at Bayeux cemetery were Biltoff, Jackson & Knight.
Air Commodore Ivelaw-Chapman was the most senior RAF officer taken prisoner while in Bomber Command Service.
(Does anyone know what BCWD means?)
Lancaster ND783 Information
Type Lancaster Serial Number ND783 Squadron 576 X1D UL-C2 Operation Aubigne Date 1 6th May 1944 Date 2 7th May 1944
Further Information
"Serial Range ND324 - NE181 This aircraft was one of 600 Lancaster Mk.111s ordered from A.V.Roe (Chadderton) and delivered from Dec43 to May44 with Merlin 38 engines. ND783 was delivered to 576 Sqdn 29Apr44. Also took part in the Key Operation against Mailly-le-Camp 3/4May44. When lost on its second Key Operation ND783 had a total of 14 hours, and was the only aircraft lost on this operation. Airborne 0015 7Jul44 from Elsham Wolds to destroy an ammunition dump. Those killed are buried in Bayeux War Cemetery.
A/C Ivelaw-Chapman was the most senior RAF officer taken prisoner while in Bomber Command Service. He had recently taken up a Staff Officer post in 1 Group. See BCWD for further details.
F/L J.M.Shearer RNZAF KIA
A/C R.Ivelaw-Chapman (P2) PoW
Sgt C.N.G.Drew KIA
W/O A.H.Biltoft RAAF KIA
Sgt J.A.Ford RAAF Evd
Sgt C.V.Fox KIA
Sgt J.W.McLeod RAAF KIA
Sgt A.R.Jackson RAAF KIA
Air Commodore Ivelaw-Chapman was detained in the Dulag-Luft Interrogation Centre. No PoW No. "
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------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
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