Source: 115 Squadron Roll of Honour by D. Bruce, W. R. Chorley, J. G. J. de Haan.

440 Lancasters and 4 Mosquitos were dispatched.

Few German fighters intercepted the force. Berlin was completely cloud-covered and both marking and bombing were carried out blindly; Bomber Command could make no assessment of the results.

9 Lancasters were lost, 2.0 per cent of the force.

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

P/O - Service No 414425

Age: 20

RAAF

Son of Ernest Roy and Margaret Mary Peate, of North Adelaide, South Australia.

Heverlee War Cemetery - collective grave 5.B.12-15

Source: CWGC - photo and digital record R S L. Virtual War Memorial

Sgt - Service No 659021

Age: 25

RAF

Son of Alexander and Adamina Stewart Mackay, of Paisley, Renfrewshire.

Heverlee War Cemetery - grave 5.B.9

Source: CWGC - Photo via Bram Dermout - www.findagrave.com

Sgt - Service No 578325

Age: 19 - °1924 Romford

RAF

Son of George and May Florence Bannister; stepson and nephew of Constance Louise Bannister, of Romford, Essex.
*Had 1 younger sister and 1 younger half brother. His mother had died when he was only 3 and his father then remarried his late wife's Sister.
Hugh was an apprentice at RAF Halton until he was old enough to become aircrew, hence with his technical background became the crew's flight engineer.
Hugh was shot down on his 18th Op, he had also, as Sydney Anderson, flown on 5 aborted missions.

Heverlee War Cemetery - grave 5.B.10.

Source: CWGC - *info by John Carpenter - photo Memoire 1944

P/O - Service No 160842

Age: 27

RAFVR

Son of Walter and Susan Shaw, of Oldham, Lancashire.

Heverlee War Cemetery - collective grave 5.B.12-15

Source: CWGC - Photo via Bram Dermout - www.findagrave.com

F/S - Service No 1286366

Age: 22

RAFVR

Son of Francois Benigne Collenet and Kate Collenet, of Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex.

Heverlee War Cemetery - collective grave 5.B.12-15

Source: CWGC - Photo Lancaster verliezen in België 1941-1945 - Wim Govaerts)

P/O - Service No J/19279

Age:

RCAF

Son of

Heverlee War Cemetery - grave 5.B.11

Source: CWGC - Photo via Bram Dermout - www.findagrave.com

W/O II - Service No R/70849

Age: 23 - °12 April 1920.

RCAF

Son of James Anderson, and of Sarah Anderson, of Radville, Saskatchewan, Canada.
He had 4 brothers and one sister.

Heverlee War Cemetery - grave 5.B.8

Source: CWGC - Photo via John Carpenter.

Sgt - Service No 1234786

Age: 21 - °March 1922

RAFVR

Son of George and Florence May.
Husband of Margaret Edwina Olga Albiston.

Heverlee War Cemetery - collective grave 5.B.12-15.
Commemorated on his parents memorial at Wilnecote Cemetery, Tamworth, Staffordshire.

Source: CWGC - info: Ancestery website - www.findagrave.com