7 Squadron (Per Diem Per Noctum). Stirling aircraft W 7520 was shot down near the aerodrome at St Trond, Belgium. Pilot Officer I.F. Hoidas, FS W.H. Bracken and four RAF members of the crew, P/Os R.A. Bowker, C. Lewis, Sergeant W. Helliwell, and Flight Lieutenant H.G. Pilling D.F.C., were also killed. Flight Sergeant Wireless Operator Air Gunner Kearns was buried at St Trond, exhumed, and reburied in the War Cemetery, Heverlee, Brabant, Belgium.
Kearns, Gerald John Patrick (Flight Sergeant)
Killed in Action 1942-May-20
Birth Date: 1919
Born:
Parents: Son of William Henry and Eva Mary Kearns, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Spouse:
Home: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
7 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Diem Per Noctem By day and by night
Base
RAF Oakington
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Position
Wireless Air Gunner
Service Numbers
R/65242
Home
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)
