Date:	Friday 12 March 1943
Time:
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF
Registration:	R5607
MSN:	OF-X
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Location:	Near Wulfen, 7 km NNE of Dorsten -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	Essen

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Woodhall Spa at 19:07.
Crashed near Wulfen 7 km NNE of Dorsten due to heavy damage from enemy flak.
The crew were initially buried in Wulfen Cemetery. Reinterred 21 April 1947. (CWGC)
Crew
Pilot: R/103187 WOII Donald Cameron Plaunt RCAF - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 17 Row B Grave 4.
Flight Engineer: 965881 Sgt Trevor Lloyd Williams - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 17 Row B Grave 2.
Navigator: J/16380 Plt Off Alexander John Smith RCAF - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 17 Row B Grave 5.
Bomb Aimer: R/95518 Flt Sgt Joseph Alfred Jean Louis Viau RCAF - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 17 Row B Grave 3.
Wireless Operator: 637240 Sgt William Cecil Burr - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 17 Row B Grave 6.
Mid Upper Gunner: Sgt Arthur William Ernest Taylor - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 17 Row B Grave 7.
Rear Gunner: 1397293 Sgt George William Dillon - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 17 Row B Grave 1.

1. "Write Soon and Often" by Andy Thomson (pilot's nephew)
andythomsonbooks.ca
2. Henk Welting's Database
3. CWGC
4. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Apr-2021 14:39	andythomson	Added
01-May-2023 17:37	Nepa	Updated
12-Mar-2024 08:21	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
11-Aug-2025 19:03	Anon.	Updated [Cn, Location, Destination airport, Narrative, ]