Son of Harold Dudley Gerry and Margaret Buchanan Gerry of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Military number 41013.
Pilot Officer (Pilot), Royal Air Force, 115 Sqdn.
Died at Age 23.
Aircraft:
Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Unit: 115 Squadron Royal Air Force (115 Sqn RAF)
Registration: R3202
MSN: KO-J
Fatalities: Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Waddenzee near Rottumeroog, Groningen prv Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature: Military
Departure airport: RAF Marham, Norfolk (KNF/EGYM)
On the night of 2/3 August 1940 Wellington IC R3202 (KO-J of 115 Sq., RAF) took off from RAF Marham, Norfolk at 21:24 hours local time. Their mission was to bomb the oil refinery in Hamburg. The plane ditched at 02:00 local time 100 NM NE of the English Coast. A search was mounted by 3 aircraft from RAF Marham and Coastal Command. But to no effect.
The crew of six consisted of:
P/O Reginald Torrance Gerry, from Canada – KIA
Co-pilot P/O Ronald William Pryor, Observer – KIA
Flight Sergeant Richard James Ruffell - Hazell, DFM, wireless operator – MIA
Air Gunner Sgt Jack Millen Croft – MIA
Air Gunner P/O Sidney Wilde – KIA
Air Gunner Sergeant James Dempsey – KIA
All were KIA (Killed in Action), but two remain MIA (Missing In Action). Sgt. Dempsey's body was found at sea on 23 August 1940 and buried at Delfzijl General Cemetery. P/O Wilde is also buried in Delfzijl. P/O Pryor, who was found three days earlier, is buried in Uithuizen. P/O Gerry washed ashore the same day Sgt. Dempsey was found at sea. He is buried in Oldebroek General Cemetery. The bodies of the other two crew were never found.
Gerry Lake in northern Alberta 56.29722,-118.27139 was named in honour of P/O Reginald Torrance Gerry.
Commemorated on Page 13 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Son of Harold Dudley Gerry and Margaret Buchanan Gerry of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Military number 41013.
Pilot Officer (Pilot), Royal Air Force, 115 Sqdn.
Died at Age 23.
Aircraft:
Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Unit: 115 Squadron Royal Air Force (115 Sqn RAF)
Registration: R3202
MSN: KO-J
Fatalities: Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Waddenzee near Rottumeroog, Groningen prv Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature: Military
Departure airport: RAF Marham, Norfolk (KNF/EGYM)
On the night of 2/3 August 1940 Wellington IC R3202 (KO-J of 115 Sq., RAF) took off from RAF Marham, Norfolk at 21:24 hours local time. Their mission was to bomb the oil refinery in Hamburg. The plane ditched at 02:00 local time 100 NM NE of the English Coast. A search was mounted by 3 aircraft from RAF Marham and Coastal Command. But to no effect.
The crew of six consisted of:
P/O Reginald Torrance Gerry, from Canada – KIA
Co-pilot P/O Ronald William Pryor, Observer – KIA
Flight Sergeant Richard James Ruffell - Hazell, DFM, wireless operator – MIA
Air Gunner Sgt Jack Millen Croft – MIA
Air Gunner P/O Sidney Wilde – KIA
Air Gunner Sergeant James Dempsey – KIA
All were KIA (Killed in Action), but two remain MIA (Missing In Action). Sgt. Dempsey's body was found at sea on 23 August 1940 and buried at Delfzijl General Cemetery. P/O Wilde is also buried in Delfzijl. P/O Pryor, who was found three days earlier, is buried in Uithuizen. P/O Gerry washed ashore the same day Sgt. Dempsey was found at sea. He is buried in Oldebroek General Cemetery. The bodies of the other two crew were never found.
Gerry Lake in northern Alberta 56.29722,-118.27139 was named in honour of P/O Reginald Torrance Gerry.
Commemorated on Page 13 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Inscription
I THANK MY GOD
UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU
PHIL. I.3
Gravesite Details
Grave 45.
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