Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt Meachen was killed when Avro Lancaster III ED470 QR-W of 61 Squadron was lost on a mission to bomb the Luftwaffe night fighter airfield at Munster. The Lancaster crashed into the River Waal, near Arnhem, with the loss of six of the seven crew members; only the rear gunner survived.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1, page 434
He is remembered in Billingham on B139.05
The remains of the Lancaster were excavated in 2013
The CWGC entry for Sergeant Meachen
