102 Squadron's Handley Page Halifax Mk II (#DT539) aircraft, with an aircrew of eight, took off from RAF Pockington on a bombing operation over Hamburg, Germany; the Halifax was hit by flak over Harlingen, the Netherlands, crashing at Oosterend, on the Netherlands' Island of Texel claiming the lives of the entire crew.
The eight airmen who perished in the crash were-
RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Thomas MARLER,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Frederick Wilson READ,
RAF Sergeant Peter RICHARDSON,
RCAF Pilot Officer John Herbert ZEALAND,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Edwin Herbert KINGSLAND,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Morris Kolesky CALLAN
RAFVR Sergeant Sidney BROOME and
RAF Sergeant William Albert MOIR.
Military Service-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Service Number: R/90563
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 102 (Ceylon) Squadron RAF; RAF Pocklington, Yorkshire
(Motto: Tentate et Perficite ['Attempt and achieve'])
A miner by trade, residing in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 12 March 1941 in North Bay, Ontario.
Son of Max and Fanny (née Spigelua) Callan of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [both parents born in Russia].
Flight Sergeant Morris Kolesky Callan is commemorated on Page 62 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
102 Squadron's Handley Page Halifax Mk II (#DT539) aircraft, with an aircrew of eight, took off from RAF Pockington on a bombing operation over Hamburg, Germany; the Halifax was hit by flak over Harlingen, the Netherlands, crashing at Oosterend, on the Netherlands' Island of Texel claiming the lives of the entire crew.
The eight airmen who perished in the crash were-
RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Thomas MARLER,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Frederick Wilson READ,
RAF Sergeant Peter RICHARDSON,
RCAF Pilot Officer John Herbert ZEALAND,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Edwin Herbert KINGSLAND,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Morris Kolesky CALLAN
RAFVR Sergeant Sidney BROOME and
RAF Sergeant William Albert MOIR.
Military Service-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Service Number: R/90563
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 102 (Ceylon) Squadron RAF; RAF Pocklington, Yorkshire
(Motto: Tentate et Perficite ['Attempt and achieve'])
A miner by trade, residing in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 12 March 1941 in North Bay, Ontario.
Son of Max and Fanny (née Spigelua) Callan of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [both parents born in Russia].
Flight Sergeant Morris Kolesky Callan is commemorated on Page 62 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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