Cornish, Oliver Mansell (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1943-May-05

Flying Officer Oliver Mansell Cornish RCAF

Birth Date: 1918-January-17

Born: Vancouver, British Columbia

Parents: Edgar Osman & Mary (nee Mansell) Cornish

Spouse:

Home: Vancouver, British Columbia (parents)

Enlistment: Vancouver, British Columbia

Enlistment Date: 1941-July-11

Service

RCAF

Unit

83 (PFF) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Strike To Defend

Base

RAF Wyton

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Observer

Service Numbers

J/10884
Prev: R/108934

Home
Google MapVancouver, British Columbia (parents)
Target
Google MapDortmund Germany
Final Burial
Google MapReichswald Forest War Cemetery
Collective Grave 3 A 14-17

Took off from Wyton at 22:34 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code OL-J Bomber Command) on an operation to Dortmund Germany.

Shot down, most probably by flak and crashed in the Dortmund area of Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany.

Killed includes Cornish: Sergeant Frederic James Cleasby RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. A. 14-17. W/C James Robert Gillman RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. A. 14-17. Sergeant Thomas Griffith RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 3. A. 12. Sergeant Fred Johnson RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. A. 14-17. Sergeant John Robert Leigh RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. A. 14-17. Sergeant Douglas Harry Rock RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. A. 14-17. Flying Officer Philip Ritchie Smith RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 3. A. 11.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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