Rice, Howard Wray (Flying Officer)

Prisoner of War 1944-March-25

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Home: Regina, Saskatchewan

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Service

RCAF

Unit

420 (B) Sqn- Squadron
Pugnamus Finitum We fight to the finish

Base

RAF Tholthorpe

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/21369
PoW: 4017

Took off from Tholthorpe at 19:07 in a Halifax Mk III (Sqn code PT-W Bomber Command) on an operation to Berlin Germany

Shot down by a night fighter South of Hannover. All crew survived.

POWs includes Rice: F/Lt Norman Irwin Altic RCAF J/22101 POW Stalag Luft L1 Barth Vogelsang. Sergeant Joseph Daniel Boire RCAF R/188869 POW Stalag Luft L1 Barth Vogelsang. Sergeant Frank Geoffrey Bushell RAF POW Stalag Luft L1 Barth Vogelsang. Flight Sergeant Carmen Grant Fraser RCAF R/156791 POW Stalag Luft L6 Heydekrug. Warrant Officer Class 1 George Renwick RCAF R/107843 POW Stalag Luft L6 Heydekrug.

Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Commands Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-45 by Oliver Clutton-Brock page 390
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