Photo: Geordie at War Project
J. Callanan
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
13th February 1943 Age 20
R.I.P.
Sgt Callanan was serving with 12 Sqdn. He was a crew member of Lancaster I W4836 PH-P which took off from Wickenby on a mission to Lorient. The aircraft crashed in Newhall Wood on the return flight killing all the crew.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3
He is remembered at Monkwearmouth on M46.02
