Coates, Grossett Keith (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1941-July-08

Pilot Officer Grossett Keith Coates RCAF

Birth Date: 1920

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Home: London, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

9 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Noctem Volamus Through out the night we fly

Base

RAF Honington

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

pilot

Service Numbers

J/3272

Home
Google MapLondon, Ontario
Target
Google MapCologne Germany
Temporary Burial
Google MapVenlo, Netherlands, Near Crash Site

Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied

Final Burial
Google MapJonkerbos War Cemetery
grave 20 B 8

Took off from Honington at 23:40 in Wellington Mk Ic (Sqn code WS-? Bomber Command) on an operation to Cologne Germany.

Aircraft was coned by searchlights. shot down by a night fighter and crashed at 01:15 near Maastricht (Limburg) Holland. The aircrew managed to bale from their aircraft but all were killed because they were too low for their parachutes to deploy.

Killed includes Coates: Sergeant Cyril George Blandon RAF KIA Jonkerbos War Cemetery grave 20. B. 9. Sergeant John Stanley Burnside RAF KIA Jonkerbos War Cemetery grave 20. B. 6. Sergeant Norman Walter Harding RAF KIA Jonkerbos War Cemetery grave 12. B. 7. Pilot Officer Douglas James Jamieson RAF KIA Jonkerbos War Cemetery grave 20. B. 7. AC1 John Mackay MacDonald RAF KIA Tomnahurich Cemetery Inverness Scotland Sec. H.10. Class 4. Grave 543. Sergeant Wilfred George Jesson RNZAF KIA Jonkerbos War Cemetery grave 20. B. 5.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)