Sgt. Rutter was a bomber aiming member of the crew of 100 Sqdn. Lancaster III ED 563 BW-G which took off from Grimsby on a sortie to Plzen. The aircraft crashed near Saarbrücken. All the crew died.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol. 4: 1943. W.R. Chorley. 1996. Midland Counties Publication. ISBN 0 904597 90 3
Acknowledgments: Simon Glancey
He is remembered in Whickham on W86.12, in Swalwell on S85.01, in Blaydon on B111.08 and in Gateshead on G39.011
