Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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

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

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

Photo of Frank Harold Green – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Grave – Frank Harold Green's grave at ST. PANCRAS CEMETERY, Middlesex, United Kingdom

St. Pancras Cemetery – Photo St. Pancras Cemetery (CWGC) Story of crash on /www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/planes/ryedale/jd372.html and used with permission of Rich Allenby. At 21.45 on the 23rd of July 1944 a Halifax set out from Wombleton for a "Command Bullseye" exercise and a fighter affiliation exercise. Presumably on its way home and at 7000 feet the starboard outer engine caught fire causing the Halifax to spin out of control into the ground at 03.55 hrs near Slingsby. East Moor's emergency crew were despatched at 04.00 hours, it was located at 07.30hrs and was found burnt out. P/O Green is buried in St Pancras Cemetery, London, and the other Canadian crew are buried in Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery, Yorkshire. They are: P/O (P) Archibald D Moffatt, aged 21, of East Kildonan, Man.; F/O (N) George A Lewthwaite, aged 30, of Montreal; F/Sgt (BA) Donald F Dittmer, aged 24, of Toronto; Sgt (AG) Albert C Reynolds, aged 20, of Toronto; and Sgt (Rear A/G) ohn M Ludlow, aged 19, of Toronto.