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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.
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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 -
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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.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Lewis Percival Archibald
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 132 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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