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Lancaster ED825 /G Information

Type	Lancaster
Serial Number	ED825 /G
Squadron	617
X1D	AJ-E
Operation	SOE
Date 1	10th December 1943
Date 2	11th December 1943

Further Information

"Serial Range ED303 - EE202 This aircraft was one of 620 Lancasters ordered from A.V.Roe (Chadderton) in 1941 and built from Nov42 to Jun43 as 129 Mk.1s and 491 Mk.111s, mixed production ip to ED782 and all as Mk.111s from ED783 onwards. Mk.1s were initially fitted with Merlin 20 and the Mk.111s with Merlin 28 engines. ED825 was a Mk.111 and was delivered to 617 Sqdn 15Apr43, Type 464 (Provisioning) Lancaster, 3rd prototype. det. to A & A.E.E.Boscombe Down and Farnborough for brief performance and handling trials, described 'as an aircraft specially modified to carry a certain item of stores' (i.e. the Dambusting bouncing bomb), 2May43. Rejoined 617 Sqdn 14May43. Also carried the ID AJ-E/T Took part in the following key Operations: As AJ-T, Operation Chastise (Second Wave) 16/17May43; To Boscombe Down. As AJ-E, Antheor Viaduct 11/12Nov43; SOE Target, France 10/11Dec43-Lost. When lost had a total of 180 hours. ED825 was one of two 617 Sqdn Lancasters lost on SOE operations on this night. See: ED886 Airborne 2035 10Dec43 from Tempsford for an arms supply drop over northern France. Hit by Flak, while flying at low altitude, and crashed. Six are buried in Meharicourt Communal Cemetery, but WO2 Cummings has been subsequently re-interred in the Calais Canadian War Cemetery. F/S Walters was an American from Oakmont, Pennsylvania. F/O G.H.Weeden RCAF KIA Sgt A.w.Richardson KIA P/O R.N.Jones KIA F/s E.J.Walters RCAF KIA F/S R.G.Howell KIA Sgt B.Robinson KIA WO2 R.Cummings RCAF KIA "