Name	Service	Trade	Hometown	Age
F/Sgt Jeffrey Taylor	RAFVR	Pilot	Highgate, Middlesex	22
Sgt Arthur Warnick	RCAF	Flight Engineer	Hamilton, Ontario	20
F/O Arthur Foster	RCAF	Navigator	-	-
Sgt Reginald Hicks	RCAF	Bomb Aimer	North Gower, Ontario	23
Sgt Thomas Riley	RAFVR	W/Op/AG	Wigan,Lancs.	22
Sgt P.E.Cote - POW	RCAF	Air Gunner	-	-
Sgt Albert Kelly	RCAF	Air Gunner	Thornton, Ontario	22

Sergeant Thomas Riley was the son of Mrs Esmeralda Riley of Wallgate, Wigan, Lancashire. He was the eldest of nine children and when his father Thomas died before the war broke out, Thomas became the main earner for the household and worked as a cabinet maker. Despite not being obliged to join up, he wanted to fight for his country and enlisted.

 Known as "Tommy", he was aged twenty two at the time of his death aand was engaged to be married.

 This was one of two 408 Squadron Halifax’s lost on this operation. Sergeant Cote RCAF was to be captured and become a pow in Camp L6/L3. His fellow crew members rest in the Churchyard at Poix-de-la-Somme, France