108 Squadron's Consolidated B-24 Liberator II (#AL577) aircraft, transporting 19 airmen, including the aircrew, on a flight from its base at RAF Fayid to RAF Hurn in Dorset flew into bad weather conditions causing it to fly off course. Tragically, AL577 crashed into high ground near Jenkinstown, Dundalk, Ireland, taking the lives of fourteen airmen and seriously injuring one airman who died three days later of the injuries he'd sustained.
The airmen who perished as a result of this accident were-
RAFVR Flight Lieutenant Francis Charles BARRETT DFC,
RAFVR Sergeant Walter Paul BROOKS,
RAF Sergeant Andrew McMillan Smith BROWNLIE,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant George BUCHANAN,
RAFVR Sergeant Henry James GIBBONS,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Carlton Stokes GOODENOUGH,
RAFVR Sergeant Charles Joseph INGRAM,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Leslie George JORDAN,
RCAF Pilot Officer George Frederick KING,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Paul Herrick MOREY,
RAAF Flight Sergeant Herbert William Thornley SLOMAN,
RAFVR Pilot Officer Wilfred Bertrand STEPHENS,
RAFVR Pilot Officer John Peile TOLSON,
RAF Wing Commander Richard John WELLS DFC and
RAAF Flight Sergeant Lindsay Ross WILLIAMS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Observer
Service No: 917067
Age: 22
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division: 108 RAF Squadron, Night Bomber squadron, Middle East; RAF Fayid, Egypt
(MOTTO: Viribus contractis ["With gathered strength"])
Son of Herbert George and Jessie Mary Morey of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England.
He is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
~~These three friends of Flight Sergeant Paul Herrick Morey who also served and fell during the Second World War are commemorated on a Cenotaph, located next to Paul's grave site in the St. John Evangelical Church Cemetery in Croydon:-
Lance Corporal Norman Cameron GROVE, Sergeant Geoffrey John GLARE and
108 Squadron's Consolidated B-24 Liberator II (#AL577) aircraft, transporting 19 airmen, including the aircrew, on a flight from its base at RAF Fayid to RAF Hurn in Dorset flew into bad weather conditions causing it to fly off course. Tragically, AL577 crashed into high ground near Jenkinstown, Dundalk, Ireland, taking the lives of fourteen airmen and seriously injuring one airman who died three days later of the injuries he'd sustained.
The airmen who perished as a result of this accident were-
RAFVR Flight Lieutenant Francis Charles BARRETT DFC,
RAFVR Sergeant Walter Paul BROOKS,
RAF Sergeant Andrew McMillan Smith BROWNLIE,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant George BUCHANAN,
RAFVR Sergeant Henry James GIBBONS,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Carlton Stokes GOODENOUGH,
RAFVR Sergeant Charles Joseph INGRAM,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Leslie George JORDAN,
RCAF Pilot Officer George Frederick KING,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Paul Herrick MOREY,
RAAF Flight Sergeant Herbert William Thornley SLOMAN,
RAFVR Pilot Officer Wilfred Bertrand STEPHENS,
RAFVR Pilot Officer John Peile TOLSON,
RAF Wing Commander Richard John WELLS DFC and
RAAF Flight Sergeant Lindsay Ross WILLIAMS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Observer
Service No: 917067
Age: 22
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division: 108 RAF Squadron, Night Bomber squadron, Middle East; RAF Fayid, Egypt
(MOTTO: Viribus contractis ["With gathered strength"])
Son of Herbert George and Jessie Mary Morey of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England.
He is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
~~These three friends of Flight Sergeant Paul Herrick Morey who also served and fell during the Second World War are commemorated on a Cenotaph, located next to Paul's grave site in the St. John Evangelical Church Cemetery in Croydon:-
Lance Corporal Norman Cameron GROVE, Sergeant Geoffrey John GLARE and
Inscription
(Epitaph…)
IN LOVING MEMORY
PAUL HERRICK MOREY
ROYAL AIR FORCE
1919 – 1942
BELOVED SON OF
JESSIE MARY MOREY
1893 -- 1981
(An accompanying Cenotaph monument reads….)
ALSO
TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF
PAUL'S FRIENDS
L/C NORMAN C. GROVE. (JOHN)
R. W. KENT REGT.
FRANCE 1940. AGED 20 YEARS.
S. NAV GEOF. J. GLARE. (DINKS)
BELGIUM. 27TH APRIL 1943.
AGED 23 YEARS.
AND F/O ERIC G. GROVE.
GERMANY. 23RD JUNE 1943.
AGED 23 YEARS.
INTO THE MOSAIC OF VICTORY
WE LAID OUR PRICELESS PIECES.
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