Granite monument with stainless steel plaque

Lancaster III bomber JB-607 (AR-N) ‘Leader’, of 460 Squadron RAAF, left Binbrook Airfield at 17.03 hrs on 29 December 1943 to bomb Berlin, in Germany, as part of a group of 712 bombers of which 22 were RAAF aircraft. They flew in the first wave of five aircraft over the target.

The Lancaster was shot down at 22.30 hrs by a German night fighter on its return flight. Six of the seven crew members were killed. The Bomb Aimer, F/Sgt. Frank J. Seery bailed out and survived the remainder of the war as a POW in Stalag IVD near Torgau on the Elbe.

Those killed were as follows:-

Pilot Officer Stanley James Ireland

Pilot Officer Ambrose Edward Blight

Flight Sergeant Maxwell Hope Squires

Sergeant William Albert Henry Squire - RAF Volunteer Reserve

Sergeant Cyril Seddon - RAF Volunteer Reserve

Sergeant Reginald James Poulter - RAF Volunteer Reserve

Design by Peter Heckmanns

Pannesheiderstraat, Bleijerheide, Netherlands.