Date:	Sunday 17 December 1944
Time:	23:00 approx
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	57 Sqn RAF
Registration:	SW245
MSN:	DX-L
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	English Channel off Dieppe (Seine-Maritime département) -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF East Kirkby, Licolnshire
Destination airport:	Munich

Narrative:
Lancaster B.I SW245 "DX-L" of 57 Squadron took off from RAF East Kirkby, Lincolnshire at 16:15 on 17 December 1944.
Crew
Shot down by Flak at 23:00. Crashed off the coast of Dieppe.
Sgt Powell died from his injuries on 6 January 1945.
Crew
Pilot: N1126 Capt Niels Christian Evensen RNAF - Post war reinterred in Norway.
Flight Engineer: N838 Flt Sgt Walter Hartmann Gulliken RNAF - Post war reinterred in Norway.
Navigator: 154595 Plt Off John Roger Garling - Runnymede Memorial Panel 206.
Bomb Aimer: N5782 Sgt Hankon Granly Bjoroy RNAF - Post war reinterred in Norway.
Wireless Operator/air Gunner: 1117171 WO Albert Thomason - Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery Plot 4. Row AA. Grave 22.
Mid Upper Gunner: 1809356 Sgt Arthur Royston Powell - Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery Hautot sur Mer Row M Grave 60
Rear Gunner: 1160335 Sgt David Charles Scott - Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension Plot 7 Row B Grave 5.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J. Hsalley, Air Britain, 1985 p. 16)
2. https://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1523
3. http://lostaircraft.com/database.php?lang=en&mode=list&sk=location&sd=d&start=30150
4. http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/view.php?uid=501662
5. https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/records/56150/captain-n-c-evensen-royal-air-force-raf-east-kirkby/
6. http://www.luftwaffe.no/Table2.htm
7. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
CWGC

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
26-Dec-2014 18:01	Dr. John Smith	Added
28-Aug-2015 14:14	gerard57	Updated [Location, Country, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
07-Nov-2018 18:45	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
02-Aug-2021 13:28	TigerTimon	Updated [Date, Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
17-Dec-2023 07:55	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
16-Nov-2024 17:58	Anon.	Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]