103 Squadron (Noli Me Tangere). Halifax aircraft crashed. Pilot Officer Morrison had previously survived a 1 Operational Training Unit Wellington aircraft accident 1942-06-25
Morrison, Vincent Merrill MacDonald (Pilot Officer)
Killed in Action 1942-August-29
Birth Date: 1922-October-21
Born: Ottawa, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Parents: Son of Archibald Amos and Violet (nee MacDonald)Morrison, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Spouse:
Home: Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
103 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Noli Me Tangere Touch me not
Base
RAF Elsham Wolds
Rank
Pilot Officer
Position
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Service Numbers
J/8627
Home
Ottawa, Ontario
Target
Nuremberg Germany
Temporary Burial
Glees Cemetery, Mayen, Germany near crash site
Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)Crew or Other Personnel
Halifax BB214
Mission
Halifax B.Mk.II BB214
Bombing Nuremberg Germany 1942-August-28 to 1942-August-29
103 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Elsham Wolds
103 Squadron RAF (Nili me Tangere) RAF Elsham Wolds. Halifax MkII aircraft BB 214 PM- was intercepted on the way to the targets at Nuremberg, Germany over the Hohe Acht mountains at Adenau by night fighter crew Feldwebel Fritz Schellwat & Unteroffizier Willmann of 5/NJG1 flying a Bf110 and shot down. The bomber crashed into the Laacher See near Glees, Rheinland-Pfalz Germany with the loss of four crew members killed
Pilot Officer Vincent Merrill MacDonald Morrison (RCAF), Sergeant John Louis MacLachlan (RAFVR) were killed in action. Flight Sergeant John Joseph Carey (RCAF) and Sergeant James Wilfrid Platt (RAF) were missing presumed killed in action. Sergeant Platt's body was never found and he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. Sergeant Carey was originally commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial but human remains were located in the lake in 2008, eventually identified as those of Sergeant Cary and he was buried at the Rheinberg War Cemetery in 2015
Sergeant Harold Gainsford Dryhurst (RAF), Sergeant Bernard Francis Anthony Hughes (RNZAF) and Sergeant Arthur Allan Roberts (RAAF) survived the crash and were taken as Prisoners of War
Nachtjagd Combat Archive, The Early Years Part 3, 30 May - 31 December 1942 by Theo Boiten, page 84
Royal Air Force Serial and Image DatabaseHalifax BB214 B.Mk.II - Bombing Nuremberg Germany - 1942-08-28 to 1942-08-29
Squadron: 103 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1942-08-28
Completion Date: 1942-08-29
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Nuremberg Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Elsham Wolds
Take Off Time: 20:37:00
Squadron Code: PM-
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Germany
Crash Specifics: the Laacher See near Glees, Rheinland-Pfalz
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: Feldwebel Fritz Schellwat & Unteroffizier Willmann of 5/NJG1
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
103 Squadron RAF (Nili me Tangere) RAF Elsham Wolds. Halifax MkII aircraft BB 214 PM- was intercepted on the way to the targets at Nuremberg, Germany over the Hohe Acht mountains at Adenau by night fighter crew Feldwebel Fritz Schellwat & Unteroffizier Willmann of 5/NJG1 flying a Bf110 and shot down. The bomber crashed into the Laacher See near Glees, Rheinland-Pfalz Germany with the loss of four crew members killed
Pilot Officer Vincent Merrill MacDonald Morrison (RCAF), Sergeant John Louis MacLachlan (RAFVR) were killed in action. Flight Sergeant John Joseph Carey (RCAF) and Sergeant James Wilfrid Platt (RAF) were missing presumed killed in action. Sergeant Platt's body was never found and he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. Sergeant Carey was originally commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial but human remains were located in the lake in 2008, eventually identified as those of Sergeant Cary and he was buried at the Rheinberg War Cemetery in 2015
Sergeant Harold Gainsford Dryhurst (RAF), Sergeant Bernard Francis Anthony Hughes (RNZAF) and Sergeant Arthur Allan Roberts (RAAF) survived the crash and were taken as Prisoners of War
Nachtjagd Combat Archive, The Early Years Part 3, 30 May - 31 December 1942 by Theo Boiten, page 84