Date:	Wednesday 19 July 1944
Time:	01:00
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	619 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LM640
MSN:	PG-L
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Villers-St-Genest, Oise -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Dunholme Lodge
Destination airport:	Revigny France

Narrative:
Aircraft took at 23h03 on a bombing mission to a major railway junction at Revigny in central eastern France. It was shot down by a night fighter catching on fire and exploding in mid air falling to the ground in 2 major sections. The entire crew perished.

Pilot: J/25855 Flying Officer Harry James Wilson (RCAF)
Navigator: J/27492 Flying Officer Aubrey Ginders Britten (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer: J/21181 Flying Officer Ewart Laverne Morrison (RCAF)
Flight Engineer: 1568209 Sergeant Thomas Mullen (RAFVR)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 128702 Flying Officer Robert Logan (RAFVR)
Air Gunner: R/163217 Flight Sergeant John Albert Garbutt (RCAF)
Air Gunner: R/203234 Flight Sergeant Joseph Frederick Mara (RCAF)

619 Sqn wartime records from The National Archives UK
Personnel files of the 5 RCAF crew members containing the loss & burial reports Ancestry.ca
Archives Canada
RCAF Historical microfilms
RCAF losses 1944
Bomber Command losses 1944
CASPIR
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=LM640
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=lm640&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
11-Jul-2025 05:00	tachel	Added