Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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

Memorial – Pilot Officer Paul Edward Driver 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

Identification – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of Paul Edward Driver – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Correspondence – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Correspondence – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Correspondence – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of Paul Edward Driver – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – The Toronto Star January 6, 1945, page 27 Additional information on crash and crew: P/O Driver and the navigator, F.O John Burrows from Mount Royal, Quebec, were on detachment from No. 434 Squadron. The aircraft they were serving on for this raid was Halifax LW 592. Both were killed on April 28, 1944, on an attack on railway yards at Montzen, Belgium. This accounts for discrepancies in research sources. CVWM has P/O Driver serving in 434 Squadron, and the book They Shall Grow Not Old published by Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba, has it as 432 Squadron. On the website //lostbombers.co.uk, the aircraft is Halifaz LW592. In RCAF Bomber Command Daily Operations online, the aircraft is shown as Halifax II LW 595, which itself was shot down in July on a raid to Hamburg. LW592 was one of three No.432 Sqdn Halifaxe aircraft lost on this operation. It was airborne at 2341 on 27 Apr 44 from its home base at East Moor, to bomb the railway yards at Montzen, Belgium. The attack of 47 Halifaxes and 8 Lancasters was scattered as they were intercepted by German nightfighters. Ten crews failed to return. That was a loss of 43 killed; 13 taken Prisoners of War, and 18 successfully evaded. The aircraft crashed near the hamlet of Sur-les-Bois (Liege), 12 km SW from the centre of Liege. The two airmen killed are buried in the Heverleee War cemetery. The others survived and the pilot, P/O H. Whaley, P/O D. McDonald, P/O D. McCoy and F/Sgt. K. Doyle were able to avoid capture, but Sgt. A. C. Phillips, RAF, was taken Prisoner of War and interned in Camp L7.