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Military service
Service number:
J/18858
Age:
21
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
426 Sqdn.
Birth:
August 14, 1922
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
September 2, 1941
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
December 16, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
16. J. 6.
Additional information
Son of William Alexander Archibald and Jessie Anna Archibald, of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald
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Photo of Lewis Percival Archibald
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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 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.<P> Photo credit: Cecil Vincent Thomas Hurley, Sargent First Class, RCAF #419 Photographic Squadron, brother of Harold Hurley. Taken at Dishforth, Yorkshire Airfield, England, 1943.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 132 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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