Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer Albert Edward Wotherspoon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer Albert Edward Wotherspoon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Photo of ALBERT EDWARD WOTHERSPOON – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022

Newspaper clipping – From the Regina Leader Post March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Document – MINUTE #1 (29/9/45) This is the document that officially confirmed the death of the three Canadian crew members;A C Watts, William H Fetherston, and A E Wotherspoon. The other Canadian was able to bail out and survived the crash. The other members of the crew were not RCAF. Source: Library and Archives Canada via R Whitehouse RG 112 Volume 30643

Investigative Report – #2 MREU Report on Lancaster NN758 Page #1 of Missing Air Crew Report Source: Library and Archives Canada via R Whitehouse RG 112 Volume 30643

Investigative Report Page 2 – #2 MREU Report on Lancaster NN758 Page #2 of Missing Air Crew Report Source: Library and Archives Canada via R Whitehouse RG 112 Volume 30643

Report – CRASHED BRITISH AIRCRAFT Report 11 July 45 Post was report on the remains of an aircraft found 2 miles north of the German twn own Laichingen. It details all of the evidence that this was the Watts crew's aircraft. It details that the local population buried the six crew members in a local cemetery. Source: Library and Archives Canada via R Whitehouse RG 112 Volume 30643

Post Presumption Report – Post Presumption Report on Lancaster NN758 Source: Library and Archives Canada via R Whitehouse RG 112 Volume 30643

Log Book for December 44 – All log book images are taken from the Wotherspoon Log Book found in his file at Library and Archives Canada. Only the period of his operation missions are shown. They ran from December 1944 to Mar 16, 1945. Source: Library and Archives Canada RG24 Vol28986 via Robert W.Whitehouse

Log Book for January '45 – All log book images are taken from the Wotherspoon Log Book found in his file at Library and Archives Canada. Only the period of his operation missions are shown. They ran from December 1944 to Mar 16, 1945. Source: Library and Archives Canada RG24 Vol28986 via Robert W.Whitehouse

Log Book for February '45 – All log book images are taken from the Wotherspoon Log Book found in his file at Library and Archives Canada. Only the period of his operation missions are shown. They ran from December 1944 to Mar 16, 1945. Source: Library and Archives Canada RG24 Vol28986 via Robert W.Whitehouse

Log Book for 1-15 March '45 – All log book images are taken from the Wotherspoon Log Book found in his file at Library and Archives Canada. Only the period of his operation missions are shown. They ran from December 1944 to Mar 16, 1945. Source: Library and Archives Canada RG24 Vol28986 via Robert W.Whitehouse

Last Mission (Nurnberg) 16 March '45 – All log book images are taken from the Wotherspoon Log Book found in his file at Library and Archives Canada. Only the period of his operation missions are shown. They ran from December 1944 to Mar 16, 1945. Source: Library and Archives Canada RG24 Vol28986 via Robert W.Whitehouse

Group Photo – Crew of Lancaster NN758, lost on the night of March 16th 1945. F/Lt. A.C. "Al" Watt, Pilot (RCAF J/89387) KIA 17-MAR-45 Sgt. J.F. “Jim” Jackson, Flight Engineer (RAF, 3040028) KIA 17-MAR-45 F/Sgt. W.H. “Bill” Fetherston, Bomb Aimer(RCAF, R/190659) KIA 17-MAR-45 F/Sgt. G.W. “George” Blackshaw, Navigator (RAF, 1620678) KIA 17-MAR-45 F/Sgt. J.S. “Stan” Hickey, Wireless Operator (RAF, 1230658) KIA 17-MAR-45 F/Sgt. A.C. Bellisle, Mid-Upper Gunner (RCAF, R/271059) POW 18-MAR-45 (Stalag 5a)

Temporary Grave Marker – Original burial site, Lachigen

Temporary Grave Marker – Final burial site, Durnbach