354 RAF Squadron's Consolidated B-24 Liberator Mk. V #BZ887 aircraft had just taken flight when it suddenly crashed into the ground about 5 miles from its base at RAF Cuttack, Odisha, India, taking the lives of all nine airmen on board.
The casualties of this accident were-
RAFVR Flying Officer Charles Lionel MOODY,
RAFVR Sergeant Frederick James TROWER,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Harry Benjamin SIGEL,
RCAF Flying Officer William John FISHER,
RCAF Flying Officer Frank Vincent BREEN,
RCAF Flying Officer Edmund Holmes BULLIS,
RCAF Pilot Officer Stanley J. DUBOWSKI,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Herbert Ernest MILES and
RCAF Flying Officer William Keith REDMAN.
Military Service-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Service Number: R/ 133803
Age: 28
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: South East Asia Command; General Reconnaissance 354 RAF Squadron
A shipper/stock-keeper by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 25 Sept 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Solomon Max Sigel and Yetta (née Markovitch) Sigel of Toronto [both parents born in Poland].
Flight Sergeant Harry Benjamin Sigel is commemorated on Page 213 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
354 RAF Squadron's Consolidated B-24 Liberator Mk. V #BZ887 aircraft had just taken flight when it suddenly crashed into the ground about 5 miles from its base at RAF Cuttack, Odisha, India, taking the lives of all nine airmen on board.
The casualties of this accident were-
RAFVR Flying Officer Charles Lionel MOODY,
RAFVR Sergeant Frederick James TROWER,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Harry Benjamin SIGEL,
RCAF Flying Officer William John FISHER,
RCAF Flying Officer Frank Vincent BREEN,
RCAF Flying Officer Edmund Holmes BULLIS,
RCAF Pilot Officer Stanley J. DUBOWSKI,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Herbert Ernest MILES and
RCAF Flying Officer William Keith REDMAN.
Military Service-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Service Number: R/ 133803
Age: 28
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: South East Asia Command; General Reconnaissance 354 RAF Squadron
A shipper/stock-keeper by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 25 Sept 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Solomon Max Sigel and Yetta (née Markovitch) Sigel of Toronto [both parents born in Poland].
Flight Sergeant Harry Benjamin Sigel is commemorated on Page 213 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
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HE DIED THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE
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