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Chipman Cameron Dawson Fraser
R/76371
Flight Sergeant
142 RAF Squadron
Royal Canadian Air Force
August 4, 1920
King's Head, Pictou Co., NS
September 2, 1942
22
Jonkerbos War Cemetery
Grave 12. I. 3-5
Commemorated on Page 74 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on February 18.
Flight Sergeant Fraser was the son of
Charles Scott Fraser and Christine Dawson
Fraser, of Little Harbour, NS.
He enlisted on December 20, 1940 and
served overseas from December 12, 1941.
He transferred from 26 Operational Training
Unit and taken on strength with 142
Squadron RAF on August 15, 1942 from
Operational Training Unit No. 26.
On the night of September 2. 1942
Karlsruhe was bombed by 200 aircraft
including eight Wellingtons from No.142
Squadron, based at RAF Grimsby.
The crew of Wellington Z1466 (QT-L).
included:
Flight Sergeant Harold Edgar Heath
(aged 19); Observer: Sergeant Dennis Alford
(aged 20); Air Bomber: Sergeant Herbert
Berkeley Hill (aged 19; Wireless Operator/Air
Gunner: Flight Sergeant Chipman Cameron
Dawson Fraser (aged 22; and Air Gunner:
Sergeant Charles Eric Hagan (aged 21).
The bombers was attacked by German night-fighters over Holland. Wellington Z1466 was
attackd by Messerschmitt Bf110, flown by Feldwebel Heinz Oloff and his radio operator
Obergefreiter Josef Schaffer of 3./Nachtjagdgeschwader 1. The bomber exploded in mid-air.
The plane came down in a field nearby the Lilbosch monastery in the village of Echt, close to
both the German and Belgian border, in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands. The next
day, the monks of the monastery and inhabitants of the village recovered the bodies and initially
buried the crew in a temporary military cemetery.
The crash site is marked by a small memorial.
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