158 Squadron's Handley Page Halifax II (#W7751) bomber aircraft, with an aircrew of eight, took off from RAF Rufforth on a Gardening (mine-laying) sortie. After crossing the Danish coast, W7751 was hit and damaged by flak and, as a result, the Halifax crashed into a spruce forest near Bryndum, Denmark. The crash took the lives of six of the aircrew; two others were taken POW, one of them dying 6 days later from the serious injuries he'd sustained in the crash.
The seven airmen who perished because of the attack and crash were-
RAFVR Sergeant Ian Kieran CRAWFORD,
RAFVR Sergeant Herbert Ivor GOODWILL,
RCAF Sergeant Joseph Edward Robert LAVIGNE,
RAFVR Sergeant Peter Frank Edward NEWMAN and
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Roger OWEN and
RAF Sergeant Sidney LLEWELLYN.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/79067
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 158 RAF Squadron; RAF Rufforth, Yorkshire
A junior draughtsman by trade, residing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada he enlisted in the RCAF on 23 Jan 1941 in Montreal.
Son of William Cuthbert and Catherine (née Flaherty) Mann of Ville LaSalle, Montreal, Quebec [both parents born in Glasgow, Scotland].
Sergeant Douglas Mann is commemorated on Page 186 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
And Sergeant Douglas Mann is remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the Lakeview Memorial Gardens in Pointe-Claire, Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada.
158 Squadron's Handley Page Halifax II (#W7751) bomber aircraft, with an aircrew of eight, took off from RAF Rufforth on a Gardening (mine-laying) sortie. After crossing the Danish coast, W7751 was hit and damaged by flak and, as a result, the Halifax crashed into a spruce forest near Bryndum, Denmark. The crash took the lives of six of the aircrew; two others were taken POW, one of them dying 6 days later from the serious injuries he'd sustained in the crash.
The seven airmen who perished because of the attack and crash were-
RAFVR Sergeant Ian Kieran CRAWFORD,
RAFVR Sergeant Herbert Ivor GOODWILL,
RCAF Sergeant Joseph Edward Robert LAVIGNE,
RAFVR Sergeant Peter Frank Edward NEWMAN and
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Roger OWEN and
RAF Sergeant Sidney LLEWELLYN.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/79067
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 158 RAF Squadron; RAF Rufforth, Yorkshire
A junior draughtsman by trade, residing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada he enlisted in the RCAF on 23 Jan 1941 in Montreal.
Son of William Cuthbert and Catherine (née Flaherty) Mann of Ville LaSalle, Montreal, Quebec [both parents born in Glasgow, Scotland].
Sergeant Douglas Mann is commemorated on Page 186 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
And Sergeant Douglas Mann is remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the Lakeview Memorial Gardens in Pointe-Claire, Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada.
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