Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Pilot Officer Joseph Leonidas Roger Rolland Lachance is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer Joseph Leonidas Roger Rolland Lachance 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

Grave marker – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of Joseph Leonidas Roger Rolland Lachanc – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of Joseph Leonidas Roger Rolland Lachanc – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Letter – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Group Photo – Air Crew, #426 Thunderbird Squadron (On Wings of Fire), 7th Bomber Squadron, in front of Lancaster Mark II aircraft, #DS 846, “Old Black Magic”. Harold Hurley, age 33 and crew were killed in action December 16, 1943. Other member of the crew were: Pilot Officer Joseph Leonidas Roger Rolland Lachance, Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald, Pilot Officer Norman Byng Morrison, Warrant Officer Class II Jack Dunbar Newcombe , Pilot Officer Robert Philip Marks (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve), Sergeant Raymond Atkin (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve) One Canadian was captured as a Prisoner of War Target : Berlin, Germany. Shot down by a German night fighter aircraft during night operations against Berlin Germany. Photo credit: Cecil Vincent Thomas Hurley, Sargent First Class, RCAF #419 Photographic Squadron, brother of Harold Hurley. Taken at Dishforth, Yorkshire Airfield, England, 1943.

Grave marker