Albert James Ellis                                                                                        Updated: 05 OCT 2021

Airman: e555018.htm Surname: Ellis Init: A J Rank: F/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 83

P_link: p231.htm Plane: LAN JA972 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off Holland

Crash_d: d041043 Buried_d: e555 C_link: e555.htm At_Next: HOLLAND

Den 4. oktober 1943 styrtede LAN JA972 under et bombetogt mod Kassel (her) i Nordsøen ud for Hollands kyst. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p231MACR)

F. R. Heeley blev fundet drevet ind på Meyers Sand (omkring her) syd for Fanø. Den 4. januar 1944 blev han begravet i Esbjerg. (Kilde: AOD)

Flying Officer (Air Gunner) Albert James Ellis, 23 år, var søn af Charles George og Lillian Esther Ellis, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Han blev begravet på TEXEL (DEN BURG) CEMETERY, K 5 110 i HOLLAND.
(Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra LAN JA972 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 4 i HOLLAND. 2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.

Se Lancaster Fotos. 7 flyvere.

On 4 October 1943 LAN JA972 on a bombing raid targeting Kassel (here) crashed in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. No survivors. (Source: p231MACR)

F. R. Heeley was found washed ashore on Meyer's Sand (about here) south of Fanø. On 4 January 1944 he was buried in Esbjerg. (Source: AOD)

Flying Officer (Air Gunner) Albert James Ellis, 23, was the son of Charles George and Lillian Esther Ellis, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
He was buried in TEXEL (DEN BURG) CEMETERY, K 5 110 in HOLLAND. (Source: CWGC)
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this. He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 32.

1 airman from LAN JA972 was buried in Esbjerg and 4 in HOLLAND. 2 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 83 Squadron RAF -WikipediaLancaster Photos.

Lancaster III JA972 OL-D took off from RAF Wyton at 1855 hrs on 03 OCT 1943 targeting Kassel. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this)  7 airmen.