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Military service
Service number:
J/89163
Age:
21
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
106 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
September 23, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
13. B. 15.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Wilhemina McLaughlin, of Toronto, Ontario.
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The Toronto Star May 14, 1945, page 9. -
Newspaper Clipping
P/O. McLaughlin was Air Gunner on Lancaster ND 868 with 106 (RAF) Squadron. The mission on September 23/24, 1944, was to bomb the Dortmund-Ems canal. On 23 Sept 44, the crew were airborne 1930 from their home base in Metheringham, Lincolnshire, and crashed around 2245 near Schierloh, where the crew was buried in a field. Of the 136 Lancasters on the raid, 14 were lost, or more than 10 per cent. F/L S. H. Jones was taken Prisoner of War. The other crew members, with F/S McLaughlin, were exhumed and reburied in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany. They are: P/O (BA) Henry Shepherd, age 21, from Toronto; F/O (N) Gerald G. Bryan, age 23, from Lockwood, Sask. F/Sgt. (AG) John F. Clarke, age 22, from Vancouver; and 3 RAF crew: F/O (P) James Isaac, age 31; Sgt. (FE) David Levene, age 36; Sgt. (WAG) Richard H. Julian, age 21. [Sources: //raf.mod.uk; //lostbombers.co.uk; CWGC; They Shall Grow Not Old, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba.] -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 389 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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