In Memory Of

WILSON, DONALD JACK

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 1768206
Rank:
 Sergeant
Unit:
 15 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1944-05-12
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Avro Lancaster LL752 LS-A he took off from Mildenhall in Suffolk at 22:36 hours on 11th May 1944, for a raid on the railway yards at Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium. The raid was carried out by 105 Lancasters as part of the extensive operations carried out to destroy and disrupt German supply and transport facilities in preparation for D-Day. Four Lancasters were lost including LL752, which was shot down by a Luftwaffe night-fighter after midnight at 00:30 hours, and crashed to the northwest of Leuven
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Row A. Grave 3.
Cemetery:
 LEUVEN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant
Country:
 Belgium
Additional Information
Son of John and Lily Wilson, of Cape Town, South Africa.