Frank George Arliss
Arliss was educated at Retford Grammar School and Sheffield College, and subsequently was appointed on the staff of the Monks Dyke Senior School, Louth. He was living at 151, Eastgate, Louth, Lincolnshire.
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He was the son of Charles Herbert and Elizabeth Arliss and the brother of Albert Charles and Edith Hannah Arliss. In 1921, they lived at 73, Cobwell Road, Retford Nottinghamshire.
DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Coll grave 1 D 19-21
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Lancaster III ED836 took off 2058hrs 7 Oct 1943 from Bardney to bomb Stuttgart. Crashed 0200hrs 8 Oct 1943 Kiechlinsbergen some 5km SW of Endigen.
343 Lancasters of 1 3 5 6 and 8 Groups attacked Stuttgart. 11 of these planes were from 9 Sqdn. For the first time, some aircraft (from 101 Sqdn) carried a device called A B C which jammed night fighter communications. The night fighter controller was confused by a Mosquito diversion on Munich and only a few fighters reached Stuttgart late in the attack. Only 4 aircraft were lost (1.2% of the force) including Arliss's and one other from 9 Sqdn.
344 buildings were destroyed, mainly dwelling houses and 4.586 damaged. 4 hospitals a museum and garrison church were hit and 36 people drowned when an underground shelter filled following damage to a water main. Total Stuttgart casualties that night were 104 killed and 300 injured. In nearby Boblingen, 350 houses were hit with 60 fatalities.
On Lancaster III ED836 there was one survivor - the captain William Chadwick who became a POW.
Fatalities:
Frank Arliss (N) + Arthur Bailey (W/Op), Robert John Darby (AG), Percy Shaw (F/E),Thomas Henry Tibbles (AG) and Eric George Roberts an American 1st Lt who presumably was the flight bomb aimer.
Flying Officer F. G. Arliss, had been posted as missing following a recent raid on Germany.
F./O.h, Lincs. In June, 1940, he joined the R.A.F., and was afterwards selected for training in Canada under the Commonwealth Joint Air Training Plan. He gained his "wings" at an air observers' school in the Province of Quebec, and was gazetted as pilot-officer and posted to an R.A.F. station in Eng-land. Since his deturn to this coun-try, F/O. Arliss had taken part in many raids on Germany and on objectives in enemy-occupied countries.
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Frank George Arliss
Courtesy of the Retford, Gainsborough and Worksop Times, October 22nd 1943 via Michael and Elizabeth Szarelis.
Photo of Frank George Arliss