Rank: Flying Officer
Trade: Navigator
Service No: J/36088
Date of Death: 18/08/1944
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force, 59 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Son of the late Bernard Seigler, and Ida Seigler, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is survived by his sister, Ethel Seigler and brother, Lionel Seigler.
Date of Birth: 08 Aug 1914, World War II
Contributor: SJ Hearn
59 RAF Squadron’s Consolidated B-24 Liberator (#BZ724) aircraft was on an anti-submarine patrol over the North Atlantic when, diverted to Scotland’s RAF Tain because of bad weather and being low on fuel, it flew into the mountain, Beinn Mhealaich, three miles from Helmsdale, Sutherland, Scotland, taking the lives of nine of the ten-member aircrew.
The nine airmen who perished in this accident were-
RCAF Flying Officer Ronald Hudson LE GROW,
RAFVR Sergeant Harry Frederick John NEWELL,
RAFVR Donald PRATT,
RAAF Pilot Officer Alan James McLAY,
RAFVR Sergeant Thomas Harold INSTONE,
RCAF Flying Officer Robert SEIGLER,
RAFVR Sergeant Ernest Neal LOWE
RAFVR Sergeant Gordon Anthony GRILL and
RAFVR Allan Wright CHRISTIE.
Trade: Navigator
Service No: J/36088
Date of Death: 18/08/1944
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force, 59 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Son of the late Bernard Seigler, and Ida Seigler, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is survived by his sister, Ethel Seigler and brother, Lionel Seigler.
Date of Birth: 08 Aug 1914, World War II
Contributor: SJ Hearn
59 RAF Squadron’s Consolidated B-24 Liberator (#BZ724) aircraft was on an anti-submarine patrol over the North Atlantic when, diverted to Scotland’s RAF Tain because of bad weather and being low on fuel, it flew into the mountain, Beinn Mhealaich, three miles from Helmsdale, Sutherland, Scotland, taking the lives of nine of the ten-member aircrew.
The nine airmen who perished in this accident were-
RCAF Flying Officer Ronald Hudson LE GROW,
RAFVR Sergeant Harry Frederick John NEWELL,
RAFVR Donald PRATT,
RAAF Pilot Officer Alan James McLAY,
RAFVR Sergeant Thomas Harold INSTONE,
RCAF Flying Officer Robert SEIGLER,
RAFVR Sergeant Ernest Neal LOWE
RAFVR Sergeant Gordon Anthony GRILL and
RAFVR Allan Wright CHRISTIE.
Rank: Flying Officer
Trade: Navigator
Service No: J/36088
Date of Death: 18/08/1944
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force, 59 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Son of the late Bernard Seigler, and Ida Seigler, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is survived by his sister, Ethel Seigler and brother, Lionel Seigler.
Date of Birth: 08 Aug 1914, World War II
Contributor: SJ Hearn
59 RAF Squadron’s Consolidated B-24 Liberator (#BZ724) aircraft was on an anti-submarine patrol over the North Atlantic when, diverted to Scotland’s RAF Tain because of bad weather and being low on fuel, it flew into the mountain, Beinn Mhealaich, three miles from Helmsdale, Sutherland, Scotland, taking the lives of nine of the ten-member aircrew.
The nine airmen who perished in this accident were-
RCAF Flying Officer Ronald Hudson LE GROW,
RAFVR Sergeant Harry Frederick John NEWELL,
RAFVR Donald PRATT,
RAAF Pilot Officer Alan James McLAY,
RAFVR Sergeant Thomas Harold INSTONE,
RCAF Flying Officer Robert SEIGLER,
RAFVR Sergeant Ernest Neal LOWE
RAFVR Sergeant Gordon Anthony GRILL and
RAFVR Allan Wright CHRISTIE.
Trade: Navigator
Service No: J/36088
Date of Death: 18/08/1944
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force, 59 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Son of the late Bernard Seigler, and Ida Seigler, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is survived by his sister, Ethel Seigler and brother, Lionel Seigler.
Date of Birth: 08 Aug 1914, World War II
Contributor: SJ Hearn
59 RAF Squadron’s Consolidated B-24 Liberator (#BZ724) aircraft was on an anti-submarine patrol over the North Atlantic when, diverted to Scotland’s RAF Tain because of bad weather and being low on fuel, it flew into the mountain, Beinn Mhealaich, three miles from Helmsdale, Sutherland, Scotland, taking the lives of nine of the ten-member aircrew.
The nine airmen who perished in this accident were-
RCAF Flying Officer Ronald Hudson LE GROW,
RAFVR Sergeant Harry Frederick John NEWELL,
RAFVR Donald PRATT,
RAAF Pilot Officer Alan James McLAY,
RAFVR Sergeant Thomas Harold INSTONE,
RCAF Flying Officer Robert SEIGLER,
RAFVR Sergeant Ernest Neal LOWE
RAFVR Sergeant Gordon Anthony GRILL and
RAFVR Allan Wright CHRISTIE.
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