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Military service
Service number:
J/9764
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant Navigator
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
405 Sqdn.
Death:
July 14, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
16. E. 1.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roy Gordon Morrison
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Vancouver Sun. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a WW2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a WW2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands<P>Halifax aircraft HR-905 was airborne 2315 13Jul43 from Gransden Lodge. Shot down by a night-fighter and disintegrated near Asten (Noord Brabant), 9 km SE of Helmond, Holland. Burials were held at the temporary military cemetery at Venlo. Their graves are now located in Jonkerbos War Cemetery. S/L D. L. Wolfe, DFC, joined the RAF prior to the outbreak of war. He had been a flight commander with 419 Sqdn and was on his second tour of operations. Sgt Bebensee RCAF had previously served on No.35 Sqdn, his DFM being Gazetted 11Jun43. That for F/S Emerson was Gazetted 28Jul44. Sgt D.G.Bebensee DFM RCAF KIA F/O R.G.Morrison DFC; Sgt E.M.Witt; F/O G.G.McGladrey DFC; F/S T.H.N.Emerson DFM. Two crew were taken PoW: F/O D.M.Clarke, RCAF, was interned in Camp L3. No.6474 with F/O D.J.Smith, RNZAF, PoW No.6291. (Source: //lostbombers.co.uk) -
Medals
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roy Gordon Morrison is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roy Gordon Morrison is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roy Gordon Morrison
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roy Gordon Morrison
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roy Gordon Morrison
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roy Gordon Morrison
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roy Gordon Morrison
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roy Gordon Morrison
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roy Gordon Morrison
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roy Gordon Morrison
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 196 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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