6 Group Unavailable
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-X) 24 Jun 1944. Aircraft was equipped with ABC jamming device. Took off from RAF Ludford Magna at 17:38. Missing from mission to Bochum 4/5 Nov 1944
Claim by Hptm Heinz Rokker 2/NJG2 - North of Dortmund (KP): 5,000m at 19:36. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 5 - Theo Boiten).Crashed at Speck near Neukirchen.
The crew were initially buried in a communal grave at Holsten Cemetery Row 11 Grave 3. Reinterred 29 July 1947. (CWGC)
This crew had nearly completed their first tour when shot down
Pilot Officer Joseph Lloyd Gallant RCAF J/95287 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 17. D. 1-8. Pilot Officer Albert Norman Gould RCAF J/95288 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 17. D. 1-8. Flying Officer Walter Franklin Moran RCAF J/38717 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 17. D. 1-8. Flying Officer John Harvey Quirt RCAF J/21394 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 17. D. 1-8. Flying Officer Gordon Thomas Weiss RCAF J/35610 pilot KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 17. D. 1-8. Sergeant Douglas Frederick Gordon Day RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 17. D. 1-8. Sergeant George Kesten RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 17. D. 1-8.
