Collins, Maxwell Ritchie (Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1941-July-14

Sergeant Maxwell Ritchie Collins RCAF

Birth Date: 1906

Born:

Parents: Harold Victor & Hilda Cecil (nee Biggar) Collins, of North Vancouver, BC

Spouse:

Home: Vancouver, British Columbia

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

214 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Ultor In Umbris Avenging in the shadows

Base

RAF Stradishall

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

R/74592

Home
Google MapVancouver, British Columbia
Target
Google MapBremen Germany
Memorial Location
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 61

Took off from Stradishall at 23:15 in Wellington Mk Ic (Sqn code BU-H Bomber Command) on a night operation to Bremen Germany.

Over the Frisians islands the aircraft was coned by a searchlights and hit by flak and machine gun fire causing it to crash.

Killed includes Collins: Pilot Officer Victor Kingsley Brown RAF KIA Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery grave 28. A. 6. Sergeant Joseph Shield Else RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 43. Sergeant Ronald Douglas Hull RAF KIA Sutton Road Cemetery Southend-On -Sea Plot R. Grave 12299. Flight Sergeant William George Lewis RAF KIA Mynydd Bach Congregational Chapel Cemetery Row C. Grave 25. Sergeant Jack Taylor RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 53.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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