1942 September Quarter death registration-
Name: Constable, Melvin R.---Age: 24
District: Norwich (Volume & Page: 4b & 184)
Vickers Wellington III (#BJ724) KO-P aircraft of 115 Squadron took flight from RAF Marham at 2014 hours on an operation over Duisburg in Germany. Sudden ignition of the photo-flash, used for night photography, resulted in an explosion on board the aircraft; the explosion caused the Wellington to crash at Blofield, about 6 miles east of Norwich. Four of the aircrew lost their lives as a result of the crash; three perished in the crash and although the pilot, Flight Segeant Lanceley, survived the crash he died from his severe injuries within 48 hours.
The casualties of this aircraft accident were-
RCAF Flight Sergeant Lester Owen COLBRAN,
RCAF Sergeant Melvin Ralph CONSTABLE,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Charles Henry LANCELEY and
RCAF Sergeant Stanley Walter SCOTT.
Military Service:-
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Wireless Operator
Service Number: R/72553
Age: 24
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 115 RAF Squadron [MOTTO: 'Despite the elements']
A trucker by trade, residing on Elm Street in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, he enlisted in 1941.
Son of Carrie Elizabeth (née Cudmore) Constable of Charlottetown, and the late James Bruce Constable; brother of Wesley, Robert, Bessie and Mabel Constable.
Sergeant Melvin Ralph Constable is commemorated on Page 66 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
And he is remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Winsloe North United Cemetery in Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
1942 September Quarter death registration-
Name: Constable, Melvin R.---Age: 24
District: Norwich (Volume & Page: 4b & 184)
Vickers Wellington III (#BJ724) KO-P aircraft of 115 Squadron took flight from RAF Marham at 2014 hours on an operation over Duisburg in Germany. Sudden ignition of the photo-flash, used for night photography, resulted in an explosion on board the aircraft; the explosion caused the Wellington to crash at Blofield, about 6 miles east of Norwich. Four of the aircrew lost their lives as a result of the crash; three perished in the crash and although the pilot, Flight Segeant Lanceley, survived the crash he died from his severe injuries within 48 hours.
The casualties of this aircraft accident were-
RCAF Flight Sergeant Lester Owen COLBRAN,
RCAF Sergeant Melvin Ralph CONSTABLE,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Charles Henry LANCELEY and
RCAF Sergeant Stanley Walter SCOTT.
Military Service:-
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Wireless Operator
Service Number: R/72553
Age: 24
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 115 RAF Squadron [MOTTO: 'Despite the elements']
A trucker by trade, residing on Elm Street in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, he enlisted in 1941.
Son of Carrie Elizabeth (née Cudmore) Constable of Charlottetown, and the late James Bruce Constable; brother of Wesley, Robert, Bessie and Mabel Constable.
Sergeant Melvin Ralph Constable is commemorated on Page 66 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
And he is remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Winsloe North United Cemetery in Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
Inscription
(Epitaph...)
GREATER LOVE
HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
THAT A MAN LAY DOWN
HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.
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