Date:	Thursday 4 May 1944
Time:	01:07
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF
Registration:	ND706
MSN:	OF-A
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	3km South West of Allainville 20km SSE of Rambouillt, Seine et Oise -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Coningsby
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Aircraft left RAF Coningsby at 21h59. It was shot down by a night fighter of 1/NJG4, claimed by Oblt Walter Riedlberger. The entire crew perished.

Pilot: Flying Officer J/24075 Ross Orval Ellsmere (RCAF)
Navigator: 170257 Pilot Officer Stanley Carlyle DFM (RAFVR)
Bomb Aimer: 130876 Flight Lieutenant Arthur Ernest Carlton DFC (RAFVR)
Flight Engineer: 1802410 Sergeant Michael Arthur Johnson (RAFVR)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1077667 Flight Sergeant Laurie Frederick Hughes (RAFVR)
Air Gunner: 2211362 Sergeant Michael Hugh Duffy (RAFVR)
Air Gunner: 53834 Flying Officer Albert John Newton DFM (RAF)

Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1944 Part 2 - Theo Boiten
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2063147
Personnel file of the RCAF pilot from Ancestry.ca containing the loss report
97 Sqn wartime records from The National Archives UK
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=ND706
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=nd706&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
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