Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Photo of GORDON LESLIE PIPRELL – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Identification – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Memorial – Flying Officer Gordon Leslie Piprell is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Flying Officer Gordon Leslie Piprell is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Cross of Sacrifice – Photo of Cross of Sacrifice in Palsjo War Cemetery Courtesy of Carin Olofsson, http://www.hembygdshistoria.se/palsjo/cw2.htm

Cemetery – Photo of Palsjo War Cemetery courtesy of Carin Olofsson, http://www.hembygdshistoria.se/palsjo/cw2.htm

Grave Marker – Photo of grave marker courtesy of Carin Olofsson, http://www.hembygdshistoria.se/palsjo/cw2.htm Lancaster ME592 was ABC equipped on 31 Jan 44 and took part in the following Key Operations: As SR-T, Mailly-le- Camp 3/4 May 44; As SR-D, Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 44; Fonteney-le-Marmion 7/8 Aug 44 (Tactical, nine-man crew); Kiel 26/27 Aug 44; Stettin 29/30 Aug 44 - Lost ME592 was one of three 101 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. The aircraft was airborne 2125 29 Aug 44 from Ludford Magna on ABC duties. Those killed are buried in Sweden at Halsingborg (Palsjo) Municipal Cemetery with their Sqdn comrades from LL757. This was a remarkably young crew with P/O Piprell being the eldest at 22. Overall, their average age was 20. They were: P/O (P) G.L.Piprell RCAF, age 22, from Borden, Sask. Sgt (AG) W.H.Howie RCAF; age 19, from Glace Bay, N. S. Sgt (AG) F.J.Kendall RCAF, age 20, from Vancouver, B. C. RAF crew members were: .Sgts J. A.Gibbon Brown; J.C.Fawcett; W.G.N.Heath; G.Farrington (ABC) F/S E.W.Cunningham, RCAF survived. On the Lost Bombers website it said he was an evader, and in the book They Shall Grow Not Old (Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Man.), it says he was injured and interned in Sweden.