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 Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Photo of KENNETH ALEXANDER MCLAUGHLIN – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of KENNETH ALEXANDER MCLAUGHLIN – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Id card – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Letter – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin – The Toronto Star May 14, 1945, page 9.

Newspaper Clipping – P/O. McLaughlin was Air Gunner on Lancaster ND 868 with 106 (RAF) Squadron. The mission on September 23/24, 1944, was to bomb the Dortmund-Ems canal. On 23 Sept 44, the crew were airborne 1930 from their home base in Metheringham, Lincolnshire, and crashed around 2245 near Schierloh, where the crew was buried in a field. Of the 136 Lancasters on the raid, 14 were lost, or more than 10 per cent. F/L S. H. Jones was taken Prisoner of War. The other crew members, with F/S McLaughlin, were exhumed and reburied in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany. They are: P/O (BA) Henry Shepherd, age 21, from Toronto; F/O (N) Gerald G. Bryan, age 23, from Lockwood, Sask. F/Sgt. (AG) John F. Clarke, age 22, from Vancouver; and 3 RAF crew: F/O (P) James Isaac, age 31; Sgt. (FE) David Levene, age 36; Sgt. (WAG) Richard H. Julian, age 21. [Sources: //raf.mod.uk; //lostbombers.co.uk; CWGC; They Shall Grow Not Old, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba.]