Last Post - Sergeant Leeming Cameron Lamb

Source: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers

In Memory of

Sergeant LEEMING CAMERON LAMB

R/223672, Royal Canadian Air Force

who died age 23

on 11 August 1944

Son of John Cameron Lamb and Helen E. Lamb, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Remembered with honour

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

Commemorated in perpetuity by

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

 

The image below is provided courtesy of the War Graves Photographic Project.

The inscription at the base reads:

HE DIED THE HELPLESS TO DEFEND
FAITHFUL FLIER'S NOBLE END

Mother

Leeming Cameron Lamb from Toronto Ontario trained as a Wireless Operator and Air Gunner. He crewed up with Gordon Oswald Prime and was assigned to 24 OTU Honeybourne for training on Wellingtons. Click here to see images from 24 OTU Honeybourne and the Wellington planes flown there. Also at 24 OTU was another friend of the many aircrew in this site, Alvin Eric Kidney. The two Wellingtons containing Gordon Oswald Prime and Lemming Cameron Lamb in one plane and Eric Alvin Kidney in the other collided in mid-air. Please click here to read about Sergeant Alvin Eric Kidney, and here to read about Sergeant Gordon Oswald Prime.

The report below is from the excellent Coupland Bell site. since it was a training mission, formal Operations reports are not available.

"11/08/1944 Wellingtons LP618 and MF591, both of 24 OTU collided in mid-air over the Longden bombing range.

P/O J Shwaikoski, RCAF was thrown out of MF591 by the collision and killed.

LP618 lost a wing and entered a spin. Miraculously, F/Lt S M Bruce RCAF managed to bale out safely before the aircraft hit HT (high tension) cables and crashed at Hanley Swan.

F/Sgt H G Round RCAF,

Sgt L H Fraser RCAF,

Sgt L M Lysak RCAF,

Sgt L. C. Lamb RCAF,

Sgt G O Prime RCAF and

Sgt A E Kidney RCAF all died in the crash.

Meanwhile, F/O W W McSween RCAF managed to nurse MF591 back to a crash-landing at Honeybourne, also saving the lives of P/O McGuire RCAF, Sgt Scott RCAF and Sgt Fullerton RCAF." 

Source: http://www.couplandbell.com/marg/crashes1944.htm

Click here to read the ""They Shall Grow Not Old" entry for Sergeant Leeming Cameron Lamb.

Click on the link below to see an image of the certificate issued by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in memory of Leeming Cameron Lamb, who is buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery at location 43.B.10. Certificate. An image of the certificate is also shown at left below, courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, asked Rudyard Kipling the British author and Poet to select a phrase to be used in their memorials. Kipling had also lost a son in battle, and he chose "Their Name Liveth For Evermore" from Ecclesiasticus 44:14 "Their bodies are buried in peace, but their name liveth for evermore."

Leeming Cameron Lamb is the son of John Cameron Lamb and the Helen E. Lamb of Toronto Ontario. He attended Midland Secondary School, Midland ON, and the school has a remembrance of ther fallen heroes.

"At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them."

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