Posting on Death: 576 Squadron, Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster ND783; Place - Le Mans, France; Date - 7 May 1944.
Shot down by a night fighter at St Remy-Du-Plain Near Romazy during a raid on an Ammunition Dump at Aubigne, 2 crew survived, 1 evaded capture.
The crew of Lancaster ND783 were;
JACKSON, Arthur Reginald - (Flight ) - 429953* RAAF
BILTOFT, Arthur Henry – (Warrant Officer) – 414192* RAAF
FORD, Joseph Arthur– (Flight Sergeant) – 410968 (Air Bomber) Survived & evaded capture.
Discharged from the RAAF: 14 February 1946.
See Cenotaph here Cenotaph here in NSW Garden of Remembrance.
MCLEOD, John Wilbert – (Flight Sergeant) – 418296* (Air Gunner)
SHEARER, James Maxwell – (Flight Lieutenant) – 415721 RNZAF
IVELAW-CHAPMAN V R – (Air Commodore) – 04073 RAF
DREW, Corbett N G – (Sergeant) – 912475 * RAF
FOX, Charles V – (Sergeant) – 1202748 # RAF
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sarina Qld, also his name is located at panel 119 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
Family
Son of Arthur and Josephine Tate Biltoft, of Sarina, Queensland, Australia.
Brother of Flying Officer Tom Tate Biltoft 404525
Posting on Death: 576 Squadron, Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster ND783; Place - Le Mans, France; Date - 7 May 1944.
Shot down by a night fighter at St Remy-Du-Plain Near Romazy during a raid on an Ammunition Dump at Aubigne, 2 crew survived, 1 evaded capture.
The crew of Lancaster ND783 were;
JACKSON, Arthur Reginald - (Flight ) - 429953* RAAF
BILTOFT, Arthur Henry – (Warrant Officer) – 414192* RAAF
FORD, Joseph Arthur– (Flight Sergeant) – 410968 (Air Bomber) Survived & evaded capture.
Discharged from the RAAF: 14 February 1946.
See Cenotaph here Cenotaph here in NSW Garden of Remembrance.
MCLEOD, John Wilbert – (Flight Sergeant) – 418296* (Air Gunner)
SHEARER, James Maxwell – (Flight Lieutenant) – 415721 RNZAF
IVELAW-CHAPMAN V R – (Air Commodore) – 04073 RAF
DREW, Corbett N G – (Sergeant) – 912475 * RAF
FOX, Charles V – (Sergeant) – 1202748 # RAF
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sarina Qld, also his name is located at panel 119 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
Family
Son of Arthur and Josephine Tate Biltoft, of Sarina, Queensland, Australia.
Brother of Flying Officer Tom Tate Biltoft 404525
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