Berry, Gordon Hewitt (Pilot Officer)

Prisoner of War 1944-April-23

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Service

RCAF

Unit

578 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
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Base

RAF Burn

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

J/89915
PoW: 3568

Target
Google MapDusseldorf Germany

Took off from Burn at 22:44 in Halifax Mk III (Sqn code: LK-C Bomber Command) on an operation to Dusseldorf Germany.

Outbound shot down and crashed near Eppinghoven Holland

Killed: Sergeant Philip Bowen-Chennell RAF KIA Ede General Cemetery Row H. Grave 18. Flying Officer Alfred Kidd RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 21. F. 18. Flying Officer Lorne Sinclair McMurchy RCAF J/25893 pilot KIA Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery grave XIV. H. 16. Sergeant Donald Andrew Harvey Redshaw RCAF R/222193 POW Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13. Row 12. Grave 195.

POWs includes Berry: Flying Officer Adam Barr Berry RCAF J/27466 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Sergeant Cyril Aubrey Glew RAF POW camp not listed. Sergeant Robert Saltoun Hardie RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Flying Officer William Raymond Sheppard RCAF J/26349 POW Stalag Luft L1 Barth Vogelsang.