Currie, Alfred Ross (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1943-June-22

Flight Sergeant Alfred Ross Currie RCAF

Birth Date: 1911

Born:

Parents: Son of John and Kathleen Currie, of Woodstock, New Brunswick.

Spouse:

Home: Woodstock, New Brunswick

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

77 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Esse Potius Quam Videri To be, rather than to seem

Base

RAF Elvington

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/113684

Home
Google MapWoodstock, New Brunswick
Target
Google MapKrefeld Germany
Temporary Burial
Google MapWoensel

Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied

Final Burial
Google MapGroesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
Plot XV Row F Grave 7

Took off from Elvington at 23:50 in Halifax Mk II (Sqn code KN-Y Bomber Command) on an operation to Krefeld Germany.

Shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Den Eikenhorst Estate, Boxtel, Noord-Holland.

Killed includes Currie: Sergeant Rolph Henry King RCAF R/109695 KIA Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Holland, Plot 5. Row F. Grave 6.

POWs: Sgt. J Gardner RAF pilot POW camp not listed. Sergeant S H A Nicholson RAF POW camp not listed. Sergeant F G Hawthorne RAF evaded, but later captured and made POW camp not listed. Sergeant D A Clark RAF POW camp not listed.

Evader: Pilot Officer A Hagan RAF evader, returned to England.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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