Sergeant (Flight Engineer)DOLLERY, ARTHUR GEORGE Service Number 1602251 Died 06/10/1944 433 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Casualty
This operation to Dortmund was apparently No6 (RCAF) Group's heaviest attack of the war: they put up 293 Lancasters and Halifaxes, of which 273 bombed their primary target and two were lost. Going by P/O Lee's debriefing report provided by Alieneyes, the three who were not killed were lucky to have survived the destruction of LW129 (which was designated BM-G). The only Englishman in an otherwise Canadian crew (as I believe was not unusual with Flight Engineers), Sgt Dollery was born on the Isle of Wight in the summer of 1922 and so was 22 years old when he was killed; he was the son of William and Agnes Dollery and lived in Nunwell Park, Brading, IoW though he is commemorated on Bembridge's war memorial. Cheers, Pat.