Military Service
Service Number: J/90837
Force: Air Force
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Group: No.6 Bomber Command
Squadron: No.432 (Leaside) Sqdn. RCAF
Airfield: RAF Station East Moor, Sutton-On-The-Forrest, York, England
Honours/Citations:
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (CVSM) with silver maple leaf emblem clasp and Bomber Command bar & War Medal 1939-1945
Pilot Officer / Wireless Operator - Air Gunner.
Alfred died when his aircraft, Handley Page Halifax Mk.VII, collided with another Allied aircraft, while both were on a sortie to bomb industrial facilities at Duisburg in the Ruhr, Germany. The two planes fell together.
The other members of his crew were:
Pilot Officer Michael Joseph Boylan, Flight Engineer RAFVR
Flying Offier Robert Leslie Cann, Navigator RCAF
Pilot Officer James William Green, Rear Air Gunner RCAF
Flying Officer Gordon Douglas Wilson, Air Bomber RCAF
Pilot Officer Stanley Ernest Zadorozny, Mid-Upper Air Gunner RCAF
Crash Survivor/Evader:
Flight Officer Max Krakovsky, Pilot
Foster-son of Frederic C. H. and Beatrice Louise Blayney.
Military Service
Service Number: J/90837
Force: Air Force
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Group: No.6 Bomber Command
Squadron: No.432 (Leaside) Sqdn. RCAF
Airfield: RAF Station East Moor, Sutton-On-The-Forrest, York, England
Honours/Citations:
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (CVSM) with silver maple leaf emblem clasp and Bomber Command bar & War Medal 1939-1945
Pilot Officer / Wireless Operator - Air Gunner.
Alfred died when his aircraft, Handley Page Halifax Mk.VII, collided with another Allied aircraft, while both were on a sortie to bomb industrial facilities at Duisburg in the Ruhr, Germany. The two planes fell together.
The other members of his crew were:
Pilot Officer Michael Joseph Boylan, Flight Engineer RAFVR
Flying Offier Robert Leslie Cann, Navigator RCAF
Pilot Officer James William Green, Rear Air Gunner RCAF
Flying Officer Gordon Douglas Wilson, Air Bomber RCAF
Pilot Officer Stanley Ernest Zadorozny, Mid-Upper Air Gunner RCAF
Crash Survivor/Evader:
Flight Officer Max Krakovsky, Pilot
Foster-son of Frederic C. H. and Beatrice Louise Blayney.
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