Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Pilot Officer Harold Edward Quinn is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer Harold Edward Quinn is also 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

Photo of HAROLD EDWARD QUINN – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Other – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Cemetery – Photo and excerpt of story courtesy Air War Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com Lancaster III JB725 of 57 (RAF) Sqn. took off 21:23 from its base at East Kirkby on a Gardening (Mining) operation in the Baltic Sea. On its way to the target area JB725 was attacked by a German night fighter while flying at 4000 metres altitude. The Lancaster caught fire, exploded in the air and crashed to the ground south of the village of Jelling at 23:48 hours killing the whole crew. On 15/4 1944 the remains of the crew was laid to rest in one grave in Fourfelt cemetery in Esbjerg. The crew were: P/O (BA) Harold Quinn RCAF, P/O Jack Finch RAAF, F/Sgt Albert I. Rands RAAF, and RAF Sgts John G. Robson, Robert Smedley, Harry B. West, and Francis J.H. Garrick.

Memorial – Photo of memorial stone erected neaar crash site. Courtesy of Air War Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com