Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Photo of GEORGE EDWARD SINCLAIR – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Notification of death – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Identification – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Grave marker – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – Newspaper clipping The Toronto Star February 12, 1945, page 5 P/O Sinclair served on 427 Squadron and was Air Gunner on Halifax LW 114. On 11 May 1944, the crew was airborne 2220 from their home base at RAF Leeming to bomb the railway yards at Boulogne. Sadly, the aircraft apparently collided with a Halifax aircraft from 432 Squadron, both machines crashing le Portel (Pas-de-Calais), SW of the entrance to Boulogne-sur-Mer harbour. The airmen from both crews were buried in the Calais Canadian War Cemetery with P/O Sinclair. They are: F/L (P) David H. Perry, age 26, from Freeport, Digby Co., N. S. F/O (BA) John A. C. Brown, age 30, from Vancouver, B. C. P/O (WAG) Stanley F. Ellis, age 21, from Quill Lake, Sask. P/O (AG) Colin B. Lamb, from New Toronto, Ont. RAF Flight Engineer Sgt. J. N. Craig of Middlesex is buried in Marquise Communal Cemetery and U.S. airman, 1Lt. R. E. Stevens, USAAF, is buried in his home state of Oregon. The crew of Halifax III NA-500, 432 Squadron, were airborne at 2257 on 11th May from their home base at East Moor. They were: Canadians S/Ldr (P) Clayton K. Barrett; F/O (N) Douglas G. Bentley; F/O (BA) Thomas A. Goundrey; P/O (AG) Alexander Hamilton; P/O (AG) James S. Thomson; and RAF members P/O W. W. Shaw; F/Sgt. G. E. Coe; F/Sgt. W. H. Riding. S/Ldr. Barrett is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. P/O W. W. Shaw is buried in the Marquise Communal Cemetery, and the rest of the crew have been re-interred in the Canadian War Cemetery at Calais. Information from //lostbombers.co.uk; CWGC

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

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 George Edward Sinclair is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Grave Marker – Grave marker - Calais Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens