Also lost on this mission: Lancaster Mk II DS660 KO-P, 7 KIA

Source: 115 Squadron Roll of Honour by D. Bruce, W. R. Chorley, J. G. J. de Haan - more info via website Pierre 'Piet' Michiels.

374 aircraft - 214 Halifaxes, 76 Wellingtons, 55 Stirlings, 18 Lancasters, 11 Mosquitos ordered to Aachen.

A strong tail wind brought the first waves of the Main Force into the target area before Zero Hour with the result that, when the first Pathfinder markers were released, an unusually large number of aircraft bombed in the first minutes of the raid.
The visibility was good and large areas of Aachen appeared to burst into flame at once. In the words of the report from Aachen, 'A Terrorangriff [Terrorattack] of the most severe scale was delivered.
2 Oboe Mosquitos carried out a diversion for the Aachen raid by dropping target indicators over Cologne.

20 aircraft - 15 Halifaxes, 2 Lancasters, 2 Wellingtons, 1 Stirling - lost, 5.3 per cent of the force.

Source: nationalarchives.gov.uk - Bomber Command - Campaign Diary July 1943.

Footage from the 70th Remembrance Ceremony at Bouillon et Paliseul, July 13 2013 (French spoken)

Squadron Leader - Service No 70789

Age: 33 - a copy his Birth Certificate - courtesy of Phil Ball

Royal Air force

Les Hayons Churchyard - Coll. grave

Son of John Lawrence Baird, P.C., G.C.M.G., D.S.O., 1st Viscount Stonehaven, and of Viscountess Stonehaven (nee Keith Falconer); husband of Dormigelda Malvina Baird, of Great Waltham, Essex.

Source: CWGC. - Photo: Lancaster verliezen in België 1941-1945 - Wim Govaerts, via A. Flower.

Sgt - Service No 777926 / 4B(83699)

Age: - °13th Nov 1922 at Broken Hill, Zambia*

RAF

POW - no 83699 - Stalag Mülberg-Elbe

Married in Epsom Surrey England to Sergeant No 448748 Pearl Margaret Simpson,W.A.A.F.
+ Kariba Zimbabwe, 2nd Aug 1995, buried at Chimanimani Zimbabwe.
I am one of seven children living in Scotland.

*Source: Deon M. Dennis, eldest granchild of the eldest child of his maternal grandparents.
His mother was Joan Odendaal born in 1946.

F/O - Service No 127974

Age: 22

RAFVR

Son of Robert and Elizabeth Margaret Moorcroft, of Maghull, Lancashire.

Les Hayons Churchyard - colective grave

Source: CWGC - Photo: Lancaster verliezen in België 1941-1945 - Wim Govaerts, via A. Flower.

F/Sgt - Service No 1235107

Age: 21

RAFVR

Son of Horace Thomas Walker and Alice Isobel Walker, of Ramsey, Isle of Man.

Les Hayons Churchyard - collective grave

Source: CWGC. - Photo: Lancaster verliezen in België 1941-1945 - Wim Govaerts, via A. Flower)

Sgt - Service No 1330882

Age: 20

RAFVR

Son of Douglas and Margaret Smith, of Sheffield, Yorkshire.*

Les Hayons Churchyard - colective grave

Source: - Photo: Lancaster verliezen in België 1941-1945 - Wim Govaerts, via A. Flower - * info via Phil and Julie Ball.

F/Sgt - Service No 406795

Age: 31

RAAF

Son of Auber Benjamin and Elizabeth Margaret Ivy Robinson, of Esperence, Western Australia.

Les Hayons Churchyard - collective grave

Source: CWGC - photo via Pierre Michiels

Sgt - Service No 1318179

Age: 19

RAFVR

Son of George and Alice M. Matthews, of South Croydon, Surrey.

Les Hayons Churchyard - collective grave

Source: CWGC. - Photo: Lancaster verliezen in België 1941-1945 - Wim Govaerts, via A. Flower)