Gunn, Francis Winburn (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-April-25

Pilot Officer Francis Winburn Gunn RCAF

Birth Date: 1914-July-02

Born: Regina, Saskatchewan

Parents: George Francis & Dorothy Louise Gunn

Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Gunn, Carrot River, Saskatchewan.

Home: Regina, Saskatchewan

Enlistment: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Enlistment Date: 1941-November-14

Service

RCAF

Unit

626 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
To Strive And Not To Yield To strive and not to yeild

Base

RAF Wickenby

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Navigator

Service Numbers

J/85972
Prev: R/139720

Home
Google MapRegina, Saskatchewan
Target
Google MapKarlsruhe Germany
Final Burial
Google MapBrookwood Military Cemetery
Plot 48 Row I Grave 8

Took off from Wickenby at 21:52 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code UM-K2 Bomber Command) on an operation to Karlsruhe Germany.

Home-bound, regained the East Anglia coast only to be intercepted and shot down by an Intruder crashing at 04:10 close to Boxted Airfield some 5 miles N of Colchester Essex.

Killed includes Gunn: Warrant Officer Class 1 Robert Edgar Hall Cameron RCAF R/116874 KIA Brookwood Military Cemetery, Plot 48. Row I. Grave 7. Pilot Officer Murray Langtry McPherson RCAF J/89285 KIA Brookwood Military Cemetery, Plot 48. Row I. Grave 6. Sergeant Ernest John Fancy RAF KIA Lytchett Minster Churchyard, S.E. part. Flight Sergeant James Douglas Mayger RAF KIA Glasgow Western Necropolis Sec. N. Grave 2118. Sergeant Dennis Randle RAF KIA Brookwood Military Cemetery, Plot 24. Row D. Grave 18. Flight Sergeant John Lander Shell RAF KIA Brookwood Military Cemetery, Plot 24. Row D. Grave 19. Flight Sergeant William Ross Wicks RAAF KIA Cambridge City Cemetery. Grave 13926.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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