179 Squadron (Delentum delio) Aircraft lost fifty miles west of Cape St Vincent, Portugal while on an Anti-Submarine Patrol.
Flying Officer HF Beale (RCAF), Flying Officer MJ Dowd (RCAF), Flight Sergeant RW Smith (RAF)(Can), Squadron Leader GHM Riddell (RAF),Flying Officer SG Hoad (RAF) and FS D Abercrombie (RAF) missing. The crew members bodies were not located and they have no known graves.
Beale, Harold Frid (Flying Officer)
Killed in Action 1943-September-25
Birth Date: 1922-October-22
Born:
Parents: Frederick William and Alice Marjorie Beale
Spouse:
Home: Hamilton, Ontario (parents)
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
179 (MP) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Delentum Deleo I destroy the destroyer
Base
RAF Gibraltar
Rank
Flying Officer
Position
Wireless Air Gunner
Service Numbers
J/14816
Target
Anti-submarine patrol
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)
