102 Squadron's Handley Page Halifax II (#DT747) bomber aircraft, with an aircrew of eight, took off from RAF Pocklington for a night air operation over Stettin in Germany. It is thought that DT747 was shot down by ground flak, crashing near the Danish village of Hjertingvej and taking the lives of the entire crew.
The airmen who perished in this attack and resulting crash were-
RNZAF Flight Sergeant Thomas Samuel Eric BENNETT,
RAFVR Sergeant James Kenneth CAMPBELL,
RAFVR Sergeant Wilfred Ambrose GRIFFITHS,
RAFVR Sergeant Arnold JENKINSON,
RAFVR Sergeant Wilfrid Charles MARSH,
RAFVR Sergeant James Thomas SMITH,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Alexander Cuthbert WEIR and
RAFVR Sergeant Bertram Charles John WHITE.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/123705
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Air Gunner
Age: 26
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 102 RAF Squadron; RAF Pocklington, Yorkshire
A labourer by trade, residing in Minaki Lodge in Minaki, Ontario, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 10 Sept 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Son of Hugh Philip and Hattie (née Kipling) Weir of Minaki.
Flight Sergeant Alexander Cuthbert Weir is commemorated on Page 225 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
102 Squadron's Handley Page Halifax II (#DT747) bomber aircraft, with an aircrew of eight, took off from RAF Pocklington for a night air operation over Stettin in Germany. It is thought that DT747 was shot down by ground flak, crashing near the Danish village of Hjertingvej and taking the lives of the entire crew.
The airmen who perished in this attack and resulting crash were-
RNZAF Flight Sergeant Thomas Samuel Eric BENNETT,
RAFVR Sergeant James Kenneth CAMPBELL,
RAFVR Sergeant Wilfred Ambrose GRIFFITHS,
RAFVR Sergeant Arnold JENKINSON,
RAFVR Sergeant Wilfrid Charles MARSH,
RAFVR Sergeant James Thomas SMITH,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Alexander Cuthbert WEIR and
RAFVR Sergeant Bertram Charles John WHITE.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/123705
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Air Gunner
Age: 26
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 102 RAF Squadron; RAF Pocklington, Yorkshire
A labourer by trade, residing in Minaki Lodge in Minaki, Ontario, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 10 Sept 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Son of Hugh Philip and Hattie (née Kipling) Weir of Minaki.
Flight Sergeant Alexander Cuthbert Weir is commemorated on Page 225 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Records on Ancestry
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Web: UK and Allied Countries, Index of International Bomber Command Losses, 1936-1966
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UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947
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Web: Manitoba, Canada, Birth Index, 1870-1917
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Canada, World War II Records and Service Files of War Dead, 1939-1947
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
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