Dedicated on 17th June 2016 this memorial to the crew of Lancaster ED810 which crashed on 15th June 1943 was erected in their honour.

The service was attended by the Mayor of Antwerp and the British Ambassador to Belgium, in the presence of members of the family of the crew among them the brother of pilot officer A. Crawford.

Lancaster III, ED810, VN-Z, took off from Royal Air Force Skellingthorpe on the night of 14/15th June 1943 on a raid to Oberhausen. It was shot down by a night fighter (Uffz Rudolph Frank, 2./NJG3). The aircarft crashed 01.24 at Ekeren (Antwerp), 8km N from the centre of Antwerp, all were buried on 17 June in Schoonselhof Cemetery. 

(Courtesy Chorley's Bomber Command Losses)

Within St James Church at Castle Bytham Lincolnshire is a small plaque on a bookcase to remember F/O A V Crawford KIA 15/06/43. He was pilot of ED810 on the operation to Oberhusen.

The aircraft was intercepted at 6000m above Ekeren by a nightfighter captained by Uffz Rudolph Frank (2/NJG3- detached to 2/NJG1) and shot dowen at 0124 on 15/06/43 for his 9th Abschuss.The aircraft crashed at Ekeren, 8km N of Antwerp, Belgium with the loss of all seven crew.

RAF loss info source; Chorley's BCL Vol 4 - Nachtjagd claim info source; Boiten's NCA 1943 Part 2