RCAF Losses

OTHER ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE (RCAF) LOSSES WITH 198 SQUADRON RAF BETWEEN 1942 -1945

F/O JAMES L. ALLAN DFC, RCAF.
Aged 23. Service Number J19586. Lost over South Beveland, Holland on the 5th of November 1944 while attacking targets on the Walcheren Islands. He is buried in the Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerp, Belgium.
(Aircraft, Hawker Typhoon MN702 - TP.F)

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P/O DONALD J. CAMPBELL RCAF.
Aged 21. Service Number J94418. Killed on the 16th of February 1945 while making a rocket projectile attack on flak positions east side of the Reichswald Forest. He is buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Germany. (Aircraft, Hawker Typhoon MN487 - TP.R)

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F/O JAMES L. DARBY RCAF
Age 24. Service Number J/9473. Killed on the 5th September 1943 when his Tiger Moth suffered engine failure and crashed into the English Channel one mile north of Margate. He is buried in Margate Cemetery, Kent, UK.
(Aircraft, Tiger Moth DE765)

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Flt/Lt ROBERT H. DEUGO RCAF.
Aged 21. Service Number J15076. Killed when he was hit by flak while attacking a train in the Ypres/Menin area of Belgium on the 20th of July 1943. He is buried in the Diksmuide Communal Cemetery, Diksmuide, Belgium.
(Aircraft, Hawker Typhoon JP486)

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F/O HAROLD FREEMAN RCAF.
Aged 26. Service Number J22448. Killed in a mid air collision over target at Cap de La Hague, Jobourg, France, on 24th May 1944. Recommended for the Victoria Cross, but not granted. He is buried in the Bayeux War Cemetery, France. (Aircraft, Hawker Typhoon MN410 - TP.G)

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F/O JAMES A. MACDONALD RCAF.
Aged 25. Service Number J18187. Killed during a "Ranger" operation on the 7th of February 1944 when his aircraft failed to pull out of a dive. He is buried in the Churchyard at Poix de la Somme, France.
(Aircraft, Hawker Typhoon JR242)

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F/O WILLIAM R. WIDDESS RCAF.
Aged 30. Service Number J13467. Killed on 31st of December 1943 when his Hawker Typhoon was in collision with another over the English Channel. Having no known grave he is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial, panel 175. (Aircraft, Hawker Typhoon JP652 - TP.T)

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