Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Photo of WILLIAM JOHN LOUIS WRIGHT – RCAF photo

William John Lewis Wright

Grave Marker – Photo of grave marker courtesy of Kelvin Youngs, Aircrew Remembered

Cemetery – Photo courtesy Regis Biaux,France, and Pierre Vandervelden, Belgium, of www.inmemories.com On 31 July 1944, the crew of Halifax LV 950 was airborne at 2151 from their base at RAF Leeming on a mission to attack the V-1 Site at Couqereaux. They failed to return from the operation and later word was received through the International Red Cross that the aircraft had crashed behind German lines and all the crew were killed. They rest together in a plot in the St-Martin-au-Bosc Communal Cemetery. They were: P/Os John R. Irish (P); John A. Santo (N); Hugh B. Gilmore (AG); P/O (AG) Gordon Lindensmith (AG) F/Os (WAG) Wm. J. Wright (WAG); John E. Gloeckler (BA) and RAF P/O Reg. T. Walsham (FE).

Memorial – Pilot Officer William John Louis Wright is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer William John Louis Wright 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