Carey, John Joseph (Flight Sergeant)

Took off from Elsham Wolds at 20:37 in Halifax MkII (Sqn code PM- Bomber Command) o0n an operation to Nuremberg Germany.

Out-bound, the aircraft was intercepted over the Hohe Acht mountains at Adenau by a night fighter and was shot down and crashed near the Benediktinerabtei Maria Laach at Glees, Rheinland-Pfalz Germany.

Killed includes Flight Sergeant Carey, buried in Rheinberg memorial cemetery. Some remains were recovered from a search of the lake that the plane crashed into and confirmed by DNA analysis in 2015. A military burial at Rheinberg was held in July 2015.

Pilot Officer Vincent Merrill Macdonald Morrison RCAF J/8627 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 9. G. 3. Sergeant John Louis MacLachlan RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 9. G. 2. Sergeant James Wilfrid Platt RAF RAF KIA body never found Runnymede Memorial Panel 91.

POWs: Sergeant Harold Gainsford Dryhurst RAF POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. Sergeant Bernard Francis Anthony Hughes RNZAF POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. Sergeant Arthur Allan Roberts RAAF POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.