DAMBUSTERS Liddell, Jack Robert George

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Liddell ​

• FORENAME

Jack Robert George ​

• UNIT

617 Squadron,R.A.F.V.R. ​

• RANK

Sergeant ​

• NUMBER

1338282 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

16th May 1943 ​

• AGE

18 ​

• GRAVESITE

Reichswald Forest War Cemetery,Germany 5.C.5 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 1925 Weston-super-Mare,Somerset​

son of Robert Hardinge and Winnifred Lillian Liddell,Weston-super-Mare,Somerset​

RAF 1941​

enlisted 30.5.1941 (must have lied about his age)​

Reserve 31.5.1941​

3 RC 13.10.1941​

10 (S) RC 15.10.1941​

Blackpool 28.11.1941​

1 AAS 16.12.1941​

7 AGS 16.5.1942​

25 OTU 26.5.1942​

61 Squadron 8.9.1942​

1485 BG Flight 24.3.1943​

61 Squadron 26.3.1943​

617 Squadron 31.3.1943​

flew 30 operations​

air gunner​

Lancaster ED927​

Op.Chastise (Sorpe Dam)​

hit high tension cables and crashed 2350 hours Haldern,Germany ​

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