Shuster, Joseph Edward (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-July-19

Pilot Officer Joseph Edward Shuster RCAF

Birth Date: 1923

Born:

Parents: Son of James L. Shuster and Sophia Elizabeth Shuster, of Mount Dennis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Spouse:

Home: Mount Dennis, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

9 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Noctem Volamus Through out the night we fly

Base

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

J/88968
Prev: R/193964

Final Burial
Google MapChurchyard
Grave 4
9 Squadron Per Noctem Volamus). Lancaster aircraft ME 833 missing from night operations over Revigny, France. Sergeants T.M. Gordon (RAF), N. Hannah (RAF), D.G. Mumford (RAF), Flying Officer L.J. Wood (RAF), and one other crew member, not Canadian, were also killed. One of the crew, not Canadian, missing believed killed. Addendum: Lancaster aircraft ME 833 (WS-Z) took off at 2301 his. from RAF Bardney to attack a railway junction. Crashed approximately 0200 hrs. some 3km north of Somois in the Marne where five of those who died rest in the local churchyard and roughly 14km west-northwest from Chatelraould St. Louvent, where Sgt. L.R. Lutwyche (RAF), the sixth crewman, rests in the village churchyard. The seventh member of the crew, FS. N.F. Oates (RAF), was captured by the Germans after spending some time hiding with the Maquis. Detail provided by W/O. N.F. Oates, Navigator, IX Squadron, England.