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Flying Officer Royal Australian Air Force 403745 (Pilot)
Posting on Death: 158 Squadron (RAF), Lissett, Yorkshire
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Halifax HR758; Place - Borrstadt, Germany; Date - 17 April 1943.
Shot down by a Night Fighter near Saarbrucken During a Raid on the Skoda Works at Pilsen Czechoslovakia, 5 of the Crew Survived and were Captured.
The crew members of HR758 were:
Flying Officer Brinley Pearce Jay (403745) Pilot.
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alan Barrett (123848) (RAFVR) Air Bomber
Sergeant C D Fawcett R/115932 (RCAF) Rear Gunner PoW
Sergeant A Ford (1379992) (RAF) Wireless Air Gunner PoW
Sergeant F E Holmes (1262524) (RAFVR) Flight Engineer PoW
Sergeant R Newdick (1382016) (RAFVR) (Mid Gunner) PoW
Sergeant G D W Scholes (1234186) (RAFVR) (Navigator) PoW
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sydney NSW, also Brinley Pearce Jay's name is located at panel 124 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Albin Henry and Rhoda Annie Jay; husband of Agnes Freda Gilmour Jay, of Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Father Albin Henry Jay (1887-1969)
Mother Rhoda Annie Woodland (Born 1892)
Spouse Agnes Freda Gilmour
Flying Officer Royal Australian Air Force 403745 (Pilot)
Posting on Death: 158 Squadron (RAF), Lissett, Yorkshire
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Halifax HR758; Place - Borrstadt, Germany; Date - 17 April 1943.
Shot down by a Night Fighter near Saarbrucken During a Raid on the Skoda Works at Pilsen Czechoslovakia, 5 of the Crew Survived and were Captured.
The crew members of HR758 were:
Flying Officer Brinley Pearce Jay (403745) Pilot.
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alan Barrett (123848) (RAFVR) Air Bomber
Sergeant C D Fawcett R/115932 (RCAF) Rear Gunner PoW
Sergeant A Ford (1379992) (RAF) Wireless Air Gunner PoW
Sergeant F E Holmes (1262524) (RAFVR) Flight Engineer PoW
Sergeant R Newdick (1382016) (RAFVR) (Mid Gunner) PoW
Sergeant G D W Scholes (1234186) (RAFVR) (Navigator) PoW
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sydney NSW, also Brinley Pearce Jay's name is located at panel 124 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Albin Henry and Rhoda Annie Jay; husband of Agnes Freda Gilmour Jay, of Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Father Albin Henry Jay (1887-1969)
Mother Rhoda Annie Woodland (Born 1892)
Spouse Agnes Freda Gilmour
View Memorial site here
Flying Officer Royal Australian Air Force 403745 (Pilot)
Posting on Death: 158 Squadron (RAF), Lissett, Yorkshire
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Halifax HR758; Place - Borrstadt, Germany; Date - 17 April 1943.
Shot down by a Night Fighter near Saarbrucken During a Raid on the Skoda Works at Pilsen Czechoslovakia, 5 of the Crew Survived and were Captured.
The crew members of HR758 were:
Flying Officer Brinley Pearce Jay (403745) Pilot.
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alan Barrett (123848) (RAFVR) Air Bomber
Sergeant C D Fawcett R/115932 (RCAF) Rear Gunner PoW
Sergeant A Ford (1379992) (RAF) Wireless Air Gunner PoW
Sergeant F E Holmes (1262524) (RAFVR) Flight Engineer PoW
Sergeant R Newdick (1382016) (RAFVR) (Mid Gunner) PoW
Sergeant G D W Scholes (1234186) (RAFVR) (Navigator) PoW
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sydney NSW, also Brinley Pearce Jay's name is located at panel 124 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Albin Henry and Rhoda Annie Jay; husband of Agnes Freda Gilmour Jay, of Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Father Albin Henry Jay (1887-1969)
Mother Rhoda Annie Woodland (Born 1892)
Spouse Agnes Freda Gilmour
Flying Officer Royal Australian Air Force 403745 (Pilot)
Posting on Death: 158 Squadron (RAF), Lissett, Yorkshire
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Halifax HR758; Place - Borrstadt, Germany; Date - 17 April 1943.
Shot down by a Night Fighter near Saarbrucken During a Raid on the Skoda Works at Pilsen Czechoslovakia, 5 of the Crew Survived and were Captured.
The crew members of HR758 were:
Flying Officer Brinley Pearce Jay (403745) Pilot.
Pilot Officer Kenneth Alan Barrett (123848) (RAFVR) Air Bomber
Sergeant C D Fawcett R/115932 (RCAF) Rear Gunner PoW
Sergeant A Ford (1379992) (RAF) Wireless Air Gunner PoW
Sergeant F E Holmes (1262524) (RAFVR) Flight Engineer PoW
Sergeant R Newdick (1382016) (RAFVR) (Mid Gunner) PoW
Sergeant G D W Scholes (1234186) (RAFVR) (Navigator) PoW
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sydney NSW, also Brinley Pearce Jay's name is located at panel 124 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Albin Henry and Rhoda Annie Jay; husband of Agnes Freda Gilmour Jay, of Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Father Albin Henry Jay (1887-1969)
Mother Rhoda Annie Woodland (Born 1892)
Spouse Agnes Freda Gilmour
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THE SHADOW OF OUR NIGHT"
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