Williams, Gordon Ivan (Warrant Officer)

97 Squadron (Achieve Your Aim), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster aircraft JB 659 missing during a night strike against Berlin, Germany. FS C.M. Price and Pilot Officer A.R. Hart (RAAF) were also killed. Four of the crew, not Canadians, missing believed killed. Addendum: Lancaster aircraft JB 659 (OF-J) was returning to England after a successful raid on Berlin when it was shot down by a German night fighter. Six members of a Dutch family were also killed when the aircraft crashed on their farmhouse. The aircraft went down near Amsterdam and all but two of the crew lay entombed in the aircraft for the next 56 years. On Friday November, 2001 these five crew members were laid to rest beside their other two comrades in Holland. The complete crew list is: WO. G.I. Williams and FS. C.M. Price (RCAF) P/O. A.R. Hart (RAAF), Sgt.s William Jones (RAF), Douglas Hicks(RAF), Leslie Clifton (RAF), and FS. Harold Boal (RAAF). Detail provided by Mrs. R.B. Woodland, Orangeville, Ontario.