Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Flight Sergeant Arthur Grant Longwell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Flight Sergeant Arthur Grant Longwell 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

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star March 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram March 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of Arthur Grant Longwell – Grant, from his sister Jean

Grave marker – (Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands) Wellington aircraft X-3420 was airborne 1806 14 Feb 43 from Dishforth on a mission to Cologne, Germany. Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed 2100 5 km WSW of Roermond. All were initially taken to Venlo for burial. They have been subsequently re-interred in Jonkerbos War Cemetery. The crew were: 426 Sqdn Commander W/C S. S. Blanchard; Sgt K. W. Tutton (P2); P/O P. W. Jeanneret; Sgt A. G. Longwell; F/S J. H. Eveline, and Sgt P. M. Corley, RAF.