156 Squadron 20/21 February 1945 Lancaster PB701 Mission to Dusseldorf Tookoff 22.42 from Upwood to mark the Rhenania Ossag oil refinery in the Reisholz district. Shot down by a night-fighter F/O Sinfield, an Exhibitioner at Bedford Modern school and at nineteen years of age one of the youngest decorated Navigators to be killed on bombing operations, and both Air Gunners are buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery. Sgt Routledge was the visual Air Bomber. F/L A D Pelly Inj F/Sgt R Morgan Inj F/O D F Sinfield DFC + F/O A J MacLeod RCAF Inj Sgt J D Routledge Inj W/O W G Pearce RAAF PoW F/Sgt E C Bangs + F/Sgt T S Carr + Pelly, MacLeod, Morgan and Routledge were confined in h Pearce was interned in Camps 13D/7A, PoW No.11454. This was his 42nd Operation