Vancouver, British Columbia (parents)Took off from Oakington at 01:15 in Stirling Mk I (Sqn code MG-? Bomber Command) on an operation to Duisburg Germany.
Aircraft was was coned by search lights and was hit by Flak in the Ruhr area and crashed at Kaarst, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Killed includes Child: Pilot Officer Charles Francis Hart RCAF J/3268 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 6. C. 1-7. Sergeant John William Blakey RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 6. C. 1-7. Pilot Officer John Ernest Chilvers RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 6. C. 1-7. Sergeant Norman Richard Cowin RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 6. C. 1-7. Flight Sergeant Alfred Penn RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 6. C. 1-7. Sergeant Gordon Jeoffre Truscott RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 6. C. 1-7.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial