Ross, Horace Robert (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1943-September-03

Flight Sergeant Horace Robert Ross RCAF

Birth Date: 1920-August-18

Born:

Parents: Son of Joseph Walter and Ruby Catherine (nee McRae) Ross, of Pitman, Saskatchewan. Brother of Archibald and Hugh Ross.

Spouse:

Home: Pitman, Saskatchewan

Enlistment: Regina, Saskatchewan

Enlistment Date: 1941-May-19

Service

RCAF

Unit

156 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
We Light The Way

Base

Warboys

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

R/102337

Home
Google MapPitman, Saskatchewan
Final Burial
Google MapCity Cemetery
Grave 13742

156 Squadron (We Light The Way), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster aircraft (JA 915) crashed.

WO Ross was a bomb aimer flying from RAF Warboys heavy bomber station, situated just outside the village of Warboys in Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire), England.

He was flying on a training mission in Lancaster III serial JA915 GT-U. This a/c stalled and crashed in Green Lane in the village of Kenninghall, 7 miles NW of Diss killing all on board. (Source:Sean.Devaney

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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

Crew or Other Personnel

Lancaster JA915

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City Cemetery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK

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City Cemetery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK