| W/O2 James Lamb
Arthur was serving as Bomb Aimer on board Lancaster Mk.III
ED-865 coded AJ-S during Operation Chastise on May 16/17, 1943.
The aircraft left
Scampton at
0011
hours as part of Operation Chastise
tasked
to bomb the
Sorpe Dam.
The
aircraft was following the Wilhelmina Canal near Eindhoven as a
navigational aid when it was shot down by flak at 0200hrs, the
entire crew was lost.
The crew consisted of:
|
Name |
Service |
Trade |
Hometown |
Age |
|
P/O Lewis Burpee |
RCAF |
Pilot |
Ottawa, Ontario |
25 |
|
Sgt Guy Pegler |
RAFVR |
Flight Engineer |
Bath, Somerset |
21 |
|
Sgt Thoms Jaye |
RAFVR |
Navigator |
Crook Co., Durham |
21 |
|
P/O Leonard Weller |
RAFVR |
W/Op/AG |
Hornsey, Middlesex |
28 |
|
W/O2 James Arthur |
RCAF |
Bomb Aimer |
Coldwater, Ontario |
25 |
|
Sgt William Long |
RAFVR |
Air Gunner |
Bournemouth, Hampshire |
19 |
|
W/O2 Joseph Brady |
RCAF |
Air Gunner |
Ponoka, Alberta |
27 |
James Arthur was born on
July 3, 1917 to Dor Arthur and Reverend Alfred Arthur in Toronto,
Ontario, he enlisted in the RCAF on July 29, 1941.
James Arthur is buried with his crew at Bergen-Op-Zoom War
Cemetery in the Netherlands.
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