Burton McLauchlin       Photo: Knud Riis     Updated: 27 SEP 2011
                                                                                       
Airman: a085005.htm Surname: McLauchlin Init: B Rank: P/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 630

P_link: p353.htm Plane: LAN ME650 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Skarrild

Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c085.htm At_Next: Skarrild

"I forbindelse med RAF´s første bombeangreb på Königsberg (her, nu Kaliningrad) i Østpreussen nedstyrtede Lancaster ME650 den 27. august 1944 ved Clasonsborg i Skarrild sogn. Hele besætningen blev dræbt". (FAF).

Nedstyrtningsstedet er her ved Sdr. Grene syd for Clasonsborg.
Se også Google Map 57 + 630 Squadron. Flyverne er begravet på Skarrild Kirkegård.
Se Flyvergraven, Kransenedlægning og Mindestue og en propel fra en anden Lancaster.

Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) Burton McLauchlin, 23 år, var søn af Orlan og Alice McLauchlin,
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

7 flyvere.

"In connection with RAF´s first bombing raid to Königsberg (here, now Kaliningrad) in East Prussia Lancaster ME650 crashed on 27 August 1944 at
Clasonsborg in the parish of Skarrild. All of the crew perished." (FAF).

The crash site is here at Sdr. Grene south of Clasonsborg. See also Google Map 57 + 630 Squadron and a propeller from another Lancaster.
The airmen are buried in Skarrild Churchyard. See Grave of the Lancaster Crew, Wreath-laying Ceremony and Remembrance Room.

Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) Burton McLauchlin, 23, was the son of Orlan and Alice McLauchlin, of St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. (Source: CWGC)

See Bomber Command No. 630 Squadron and  630 Squadron Home Page, the No 57 Squadron and No 630 Squadron website,
the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre and the Wartime Memories Project - RAF East Kirby. This Lancaster - see photos - took off from RAF East Kirby.
7 airmen. Lost Bombers has this.