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Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Wesley Morey
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Wesley Morey
(Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands)
Airborne 0030 13May43 from Ridgewell on a mission over Duisberg. Shot down by a night-fighter, crashing 0328 into the IJsselmeer off Nijkerk (Gelderland), Holland. In the years that have passed all have been positively identified and taken for burial in various Dutch cemeteries. The wreckage of BF523 was recovered by the Dutch Air Force in 1967. Sgt W.Morey was Pilot of the aircraft with a RAF crew consisting of Sgt R.S.Shaw, Sgt B.A.Bacon, Sgt W.Murray, Sgt E.W.Eke, Sgt A.J.Buxton and Sgt C.Green.
(Source //lostbombers.co.uk)
Image gallery
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Flight Sergeant Wesley Morey is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Wesley Morey is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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(Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands) Airborne 0030 13May43 from Ridgewell on a mission over Duisberg. Shot down by a night-fighter, crashing 0328 into the IJsselmeer off Nijkerk (Gelderland), Holland. In the years that have passed all have been positively identified and taken for burial in various Dutch cemeteries. The wreckage of BF523 was recovered by the Dutch Air Force in 1967. Sgt W.Morey was Pilot of the aircraft with a RAF crew consisting of Sgt R.S.Shaw, Sgt B.A.Bacon, Sgt W.Murray, Sgt E.W.Eke, Sgt A.J.Buxton and Sgt C.Green. (Source //lostbombers.co.uk)
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … Flight Sergeant Wesley Morey is also commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Montreal Gazette. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 196 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY Netherlands
The town of Nijmegen is 16 km south of Arnhem. JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY is 4 km south west of Nijmegen, 1 km south of the main Grave-Nijmegen road. Folowing the A73 exit at the junction Nijmegen Wijchen taking following directions to Nijmegen along the A32b entering Nijmegen on the Graafseweg. On reaching the Industrieterrein a Commission signpost directs visitors to turn left onto the Weg Door Jonkerbos. Shortly after appears a further signpost showing the left hand turning onto Oude Mollenhutseweg. The JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY is located on 150 metres after entering the Oude Mollenhutseweg on the right hand side of the road.
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