McCoombes, Wilbur Jordan (Warrant Officer 1st Class)

Prisoner of War 1943-July-16

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Home: Port Medway, Nova Scotia

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Service

RCAF

Unit

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

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Rank

Warrant Officer 1st Class

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Service Numbers

R/88234

Home
Google MapPort Medway, Nova Scotia
Target
Google MapRegio Emilia Italy

Took off from Bardney at 22:20 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: WS-P Bomber Command) to attack a transformer station at Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy.

Last heard on W/T at 04:05 transmitting 'Hit by another aircraft - trying to make base'. Crashed at Mirandola Italy

Killed: Sergeant Edward William Edwards RAF KIA Ravenna War Cemetery Ref : I. G. 14.

POWs: Sergeant Francis Sidney Finlay RCAF R/66618 POW Stalag 11A Altengrabow. Flying Officer Robert Stanley Shaw RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Sergeant Donald Richard Walter RAF POW Stalag 11A Altengrabow. Flight Sergeant Wilbur Jordan McCoombs RCAF R/88234 POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia.

Evaders: Flight Sergeant John Frank Merchant RCAF R/104847 Evader.