Military Service
Service Number: J/37726
Enlisted: August 19, 1942 Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Force: Air Force
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Group: No.6 Bomber Command
Squadron: No.432 (Leaside) Sqdn. RCAF
Airfield: RAF Station East Moor, Sutton-On-The-Forrest, York, England
Aircraft: Handley Page Halifax Mk.VII - NP699/QO-O
Deceased Age: 22
Flying Officer / Air Bomber.
Mission:
Gordon took off on a sortie to bomb industrial facilities at Duisburg in the Ruhr, Germany. At about 06:00 hrs, while over the Rocroi area, France the aircraft Collided midair with Handley Page Halifax Mk III - LV818 of 10 Squadron RAF, which had flown from RAF Station Melbourne, and was engaged in the same mission. The two planes fell together. LV818 crashed in the vicinity of Rocroi, near the village of Taillette, at the place called Les Bernes, France close to the Belgian border with the loss of all 8 crew members. NP699 crashed towards Brûly, Belgium with one survivor and the loss of 6 crew members.
Fellow crew members;
RCAF Pilot Officer Alfred Goodman-Wells Blayney - Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
RAFVR Pilot Officer Michael Joseph Boylan - Flight Engineer
RCAF Flying Officer Robert Leslie Cann - Navigator
RCAF Pilot Officer James William Green - Rear Air Gunner
RCAF Pilot Officer Stanley Ernest Zadorozny - Mid-Upper Air Gunner
Crash Surviver/Evader:
Flight Officer Max Krakovsky (later changed his name to "Carson") - Pilot
Honours/Citations:
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (CVSM) with silver maple leaf emblem clasp and Bomber Command bar & War Medal 1939-1945
Commemoration(s)
- Page 480 Second World War Book of Remembrance, Memorial Chamber, Canadian Parliament Peace Tower, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Bomber Command Memorial Wall, Nanton, Alberta, Canada
- Phase 2 / Panel 267 International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) Canwick Ave, Lincoln LN4 2HQ, United Kingdom
Next of Kin: Son of James and Elizabeth Wilson. of Chatham. Ontario. Brother to Jessie Wilson, Donald Wilson, Mrs. Freda (nee Wilson) Burtch and Mrs. Jessie (nee Wilson) Days.
Military Service
Service Number: J/37726
Enlisted: August 19, 1942 Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Force: Air Force
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Group: No.6 Bomber Command
Squadron: No.432 (Leaside) Sqdn. RCAF
Airfield: RAF Station East Moor, Sutton-On-The-Forrest, York, England
Aircraft: Handley Page Halifax Mk.VII - NP699/QO-O
Deceased Age: 22
Flying Officer / Air Bomber.
Mission:
Gordon took off on a sortie to bomb industrial facilities at Duisburg in the Ruhr, Germany. At about 06:00 hrs, while over the Rocroi area, France the aircraft Collided midair with Handley Page Halifax Mk III - LV818 of 10 Squadron RAF, which had flown from RAF Station Melbourne, and was engaged in the same mission. The two planes fell together. LV818 crashed in the vicinity of Rocroi, near the village of Taillette, at the place called Les Bernes, France close to the Belgian border with the loss of all 8 crew members. NP699 crashed towards Brûly, Belgium with one survivor and the loss of 6 crew members.
Fellow crew members;
RCAF Pilot Officer Alfred Goodman-Wells Blayney - Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
RAFVR Pilot Officer Michael Joseph Boylan - Flight Engineer
RCAF Flying Officer Robert Leslie Cann - Navigator
RCAF Pilot Officer James William Green - Rear Air Gunner
RCAF Pilot Officer Stanley Ernest Zadorozny - Mid-Upper Air Gunner
Crash Surviver/Evader:
Flight Officer Max Krakovsky (later changed his name to "Carson") - Pilot
Honours/Citations:
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (CVSM) with silver maple leaf emblem clasp and Bomber Command bar & War Medal 1939-1945
Commemoration(s)
- Page 480 Second World War Book of Remembrance, Memorial Chamber, Canadian Parliament Peace Tower, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Bomber Command Memorial Wall, Nanton, Alberta, Canada
- Phase 2 / Panel 267 International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) Canwick Ave, Lincoln LN4 2HQ, United Kingdom
Next of Kin: Son of James and Elizabeth Wilson. of Chatham. Ontario. Brother to Jessie Wilson, Donald Wilson, Mrs. Freda (nee Wilson) Burtch and Mrs. Jessie (nee Wilson) Days.
Inscription
(RCAF Insignia)
FLYING OFFICER
G. D. WILSON
AIR BOMBER
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
18TH DECEMBER 1944 AGE 22
(Cross)
DEAR SON OF E. AND J. WILSON,
CHATHAM, ONT., CANADA
"FOR OUR TO-MORROW
HE GAVE HIS TO-DAY"
Gravesite Details
Flying Officer (Air Bomber), 432 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force. Son of James and Elizabeth Wilson. of Chatham. Ontario. Age 22.
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