Pilot Officer Nelson Hagey “Neil” Groh Veteran

Birth: 1 Jul 1916
Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Death: 14 Jul 1944 (aged 28)
Kirby Underdale, East Riding of Yorkshire Unitary Authority, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Burial: Stonefall Cemetery and Crematorium

Harrogate, Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire, England Add to Map
Plot: Sec. B. Row J. Grave 10.
Memorial ID: 56462585 View Source

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
Pilot Officer Nelson Hagey Groh SN J/90370 - R/173636
Occupation: Dairy Operater
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Enlisted: July 10, 1942 Sinigle
Squadron: 77th Royal Air Force Squadron
Air Field: Full Sutton
Aircraft: Handley Page Halifax #MZ 768
Duties: Pilot (Skipper)
Deceased: July 14, 1944 Aged 28
While engaged in a corkscrew flying maneuver with a steep diving turn during a fighter affiliation exercise against a Spitfire a wing folded back causing the bomber to hit the ground making a large crater one mile from the church at Kirby Underdale, Yorkshire killing;

Sgt Glendon Arthur Smirl
Sgt Daniel Webster MacKinnon
Plt Off Daniel Francis Connolly
Plt Off Joseph Trevor Yeomans
Plt Off Francis Simon Marcellus and one non Canadian crew member.
Citation(s): War Medal 1939-1945, 1939-45 Star and Air Crew Europe Star

Son of Norman I. Groh and Ida Hagey Groh, of Beamsville, Ontario, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 323 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance housed in the Peace Tower of the Canadian Parliament Buildings, Memorial Chamber.

Commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, Alberta.

Commemorated on the Beamsville Ontario War memorial.