415 RCAF Squadron's Vickers Wellington Mk XIII (#HZ655) aircraft, with an aircrew of seven, plus one passenger on board, took off from RAF North Coates on an anti-shipping Gilbey operation. It went missing after the crew relayed a message about the failure of its port engine; the Wellington was lost over the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands taking with it the entire crew. With the exception of P/O Dissing, who was laid to rest in the Netherlands' Bergen General Cemetery, the RCAF aircrew is commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial.
The eight airmen who perished in this incident were-
RCAF Flight Lieutenant John Frederic ACER,
RCAF Pilot Officer Jens Lawrence DISSING,
RCAF Pilot Officer Cyril James McCARVILL,
RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Charles Edward WEST,
RCAF Pilot Officer Jack Earl RUSSELL,
RCAF Pilot Officer Charles Edward SIMPSON,
RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Edward Johnston DORVAL and
RCAF Leading Aircraftman John William HUSSELBEE. [LAC Husselbee of 8415 Servicing Echelon, though not a member of the aircrew, had been given special permission to join the crew on this flight.]
Military Service-
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: C/1748
Age: 38
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 415 'Swordfish' RCAF Squadron; RAF North Coates, Lincolnshire
(Motto: Ad metam [' To the mark'])
A pulp and paper company salesman by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 21 Feb 1940 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Son of John Hamilton Adams and Margaret L. Acer (née Black); husband of Eleanor Louise Acer (née Bishop) of Westmount, Quebec; father of Anne Louise, Anthony Lee and Elizabeth Belle; brother of two sisters.
Flight Lieutenant John Frederic Acer is commemorated on Page 234 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
415 RCAF Squadron's Vickers Wellington Mk XIII (#HZ655) aircraft, with an aircrew of seven, plus one passenger on board, took off from RAF North Coates on an anti-shipping Gilbey operation. It went missing after the crew relayed a message about the failure of its port engine; the Wellington was lost over the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands taking with it the entire crew. With the exception of P/O Dissing, who was laid to rest in the Netherlands' Bergen General Cemetery, the RCAF aircrew is commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial.
The eight airmen who perished in this incident were-
RCAF Flight Lieutenant John Frederic ACER,
RCAF Pilot Officer Jens Lawrence DISSING,
RCAF Pilot Officer Cyril James McCARVILL,
RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Charles Edward WEST,
RCAF Pilot Officer Jack Earl RUSSELL,
RCAF Pilot Officer Charles Edward SIMPSON,
RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Edward Johnston DORVAL and
RCAF Leading Aircraftman John William HUSSELBEE. [LAC Husselbee of 8415 Servicing Echelon, though not a member of the aircrew, had been given special permission to join the crew on this flight.]
Military Service-
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: C/1748
Age: 38
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 415 'Swordfish' RCAF Squadron; RAF North Coates, Lincolnshire
(Motto: Ad metam [' To the mark'])
A pulp and paper company salesman by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 21 Feb 1940 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Son of John Hamilton Adams and Margaret L. Acer (née Black); husband of Eleanor Louise Acer (née Bishop) of Westmount, Quebec; father of Anne Louise, Anthony Lee and Elizabeth Belle; brother of two sisters.
Flight Lieutenant John Frederic Acer is commemorated on Page 234 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
1944
ROYAL CANADIAN
AIR FORCE
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
ACER J. F.
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Records on Ancestry
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Massachusetts, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1963
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1921 Census of Canada
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New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
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UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947
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