Murray Macdonald Gardner Rank: Flight Lieutenant Status: Killed in Action 1945-03-13

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Gardner, Murray Macdonald (Flight Lieutenant)

Killed in Action 1945-March-13

Birth Date: 1917 (age 28)

Son of Morris Woodruff Gardner and Ellen Elizabeth Gardner, of Medicine Hat. Alberta, Canada.

Home: Medicine Hat, Alberta

Service
RCAF

Unit
215 (T) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Surgite Nox Adest Arise night is at hand

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Marshal
Air Chief Marshal	A/C/M
Air Marshal	A/M
Air Vice Marshal	A/V/M
Air Commodore	A/C
Group Captain	G/C
Wing Commander	W/C
Squadron Leader	S/L
Flight Lieutenant	F/L
Flying Officer	F/O
Pilot Officer	P/O
Warrant Officer 1st Class	WO1
Warrant Officer 2nd Class	WO2
Flight Sergeant	FS
Sergeant	SGT
Corporal	CPL
Senior Aircraftman	SAC
Leading Aircraftman	LAC
Aircraftman 1st Class	AC1
Aircraftman 2nd Class	AC2

Position
Pilot

Service Numbers
C/21515
Prev: R/77918

215 Squadron (Surgite Nox Adest). Flight Lieutenant Gardner attempted a forced landing in aircraft FZ 786 along the Parksay railway line. The aircraft crashed into a bend, after the initial touch down, one and three quarters miles from Ishurdi, Burma. Flying Officer E.F. Gilbert and one passenger, not Canadian, were also killed.

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Home

Medicine Hat, Alberta

Burial
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Maynamati War Cemetry
10 C 2

Argus (Fairchild 24) FZ786

Flight Lieutenant Gardner, Murray Macdonald (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-March-13
Maynamati War Cemetry, Sylhet Highway, Cumilla, Bangladesh

Flying Officer Gilbert, Edward Franklin (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1945-March-13
Maynamati War Cemetry, Sylhet Highway, Cumilla, Bangladesh

Male Head

Flying Officer Williams, John (RAF)
Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1945-March-13
Maynamati War Cemetry, Sylhet Highway, Cumilla, Bangladesh

Fairchild Argus 24R 24H

(RCAF Photo)
Fairchild F-24H Argus, RCAF (Serial No. 699). Flown out of Rockcliffe, Ottawa, Ontario from Nov 1940 until she was struck off strength in Dec 1942.

The Fairchild Model 24, also called the Fairchild Model 24 Argus/UC-61 Forwarder or Fairchild Model 24 Argus, is a four-seat, single-engine monoplane light transport aircraft designed by the Fairchild Aviation Corporation in the 1930s. It was adopted by the United States Army Air Corps as UC-61 and also by the Royal Air Force. The Model 24 was itself a development of previous Fairchild models and became a successful civil and military utility aircraft. Wikipedia

Wkikpedia Fairchild Model 24 Argus

CASPIR Aircraft Groups:

RCAF On Strength (4), Canadian Aircraft Losses (1)

last update: 2021-11-02 12:59:04

Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

Lancaster FM213

Andrew Mynarski, VC

Gardner, Murray Macdonald (Flight Lieutenant)

Killed in Action 1945-March-13

Argus (Fairchild 24) FZ786

Fairchild Argus 24R 24H

CASPIR Aircraft Groups:

Argus (Fairchild 24) Mk. ll FZ786

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