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Hi All,

My Apologies. I misread the article. He was engaged to be married.

I will try not to jump like that again.

Again, sorry to have caused a fuss over just a few words, and Many Thanks for setting the record straight before it gets published..

Paul
Wetaskiwin

Hi George, Some background, from the chronology. July 1944 4-5 Immediately following the TALLBOY attack on the V-1 storage caves at St. Leu D'Esserent it was bombed by a further 231 Lancasters and 15 Mosquitos which destroyed the access to the site. Within 2 days the number of V-1 launches is reduce...

Hi, Flight Sergeant Horning was killed Jan. 14. 1942, in the loss of a #22 OTU Welllington DV481. At the Find a Grave website here is a reference in a paper (from Dundas, Ontario?) that he had recently been married to "a Miss Harding, of Stratford-On-Avon [England]", but there is no reference to thi...

Hi Again Temujin, and again Many Thanks.

Complete answer.

Paul
Wetaskwin, Alberta

Hi Temujin,

Complete and more.

That he only arrived at his Squadron the day before his loss is tragic.

I wonder how that was done in a Hampden. Was he a second pilot making his flight for experience? Replacing an Air Gunner perhaps?

Many Thanks,

Paul Squires
Wetaskiwin, Alberta

Hi All, I am looking for the name of the spouse of F/O A.J. Fraser J3271, lost January 3, 1942 when his #106 Squadron Hampden was shot down by anti-aircraft fire on a GARDENING sortie. His parents are listed in the Canadian Virtual War Memorial as from Calgary, resident in Ottawa, and there are refe...

Hi George, I believe that Sgt Lewis was a pre-war Airman in the RCAF (age 41 when he died) and thus had only a number without a prefix. Hugh Halliday has posted on the RAF Commands site on the complexities of the RCAF Serial Number system. Here is one https://www.rafcommands.com/archive/01782.php an...

Hi Readers, AC1 Thomas Begley McLean died April 25, 1940 of injuries sustained when the vehicle he was a passenger in was hit by a train at a level crossing in a snowstorm near Sydney, Nova Scotia, two other RCAF were killed and the driver badly injured. Newspaper clippings at the Canadian Virtual W...

Hi at Wartimes,

Sgt Walter Lewis RCAF 1404 of Trenton, Ontario is recorded as dying of natural causes, age 41, March 23, 1940. Does anyone know the circumstances of his death and what unit he was attached to at the time, and was he married?

Many Thanks in advance,

Paul Squires
Wetaskiwin, Alberta

Hi Temujin, A PoW of Japan. That explains a lot. Turns out I had him in the PoW listing, from the www.fepow.family list, but didn't make the connection. Getting old, I guess. https://www.fepow.family/Research/British_FEPOWs/O/html/os-ou_database_6.htm Date of capture given as March 8, 1942. Allied u...