108 Squadron's Consolidated B-24 Liberator II (#AL577) aircraft, transporting 19 airmen, including the aircrew, on a flight from its base at RAF Fayid to RAF Hurn in Dorset flew into bad weather conditions causing it to fly off course. Tragically, AL577 crashed into high ground near Jenkinstown, Dundalk, Ireland, taking the lives of fourteen airmen and seriously injuring one airman who died three days later of the injuries he'd sustained.
The airmen who perished as a result of this accident were-
RAFVR Flight Lieutenant Francis Charles BARRETT DCF,
RAFVR Sergeant Walter Paul BROOKS,
RAF Sergeant Andrew McMillan Smith BROWNLIE,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant George BUCHANAN,
RAFVR Sergeant Henry James GIBBONS,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Carlton Stokes GOODENOUGH,
RAFVR Sergeant Charles Joseph INGRAM,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Leslie George JORDAN,
RCAF Pilot Officer George Frederick KING,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Paul Herrick MOREY,
RAAF Flight Sergeant Herbert William Thornley SLOMAN,
RAFVR Pilot Officer Wilfred Bertrand STEPHENS,
RAFVR Pilot Officer John Peile TOLSON,
RAF Wing Commander Richard John WELLS DFC and RAAF Flight Sergeant Lindsay Ross WILLIAMS.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/62738
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Air Observer
Age: 28
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 108 RAF Squadron, Night Bomber squadron, Middle East; RAF Fayid, Egypt
(MOTTO: Viribus contractis ["With gathered strength"])
Married, a teacher by trade, residing in Bury, Quebec, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 24 July 1940 in Thetford Mines, Quebec.
Son of Wright E. Goodenough and Eva Louise (née Stokes) Goodenough; husband of Margaret Bagley Goodenough of East Angus, Quebec, Canada.
Flight Sergeant Carlton Stokes Goodenough is commemorated on Page 77 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
And he is remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Bury Cemetery in Bury, Quebec.
108 Squadron's Consolidated B-24 Liberator II (#AL577) aircraft, transporting 19 airmen, including the aircrew, on a flight from its base at RAF Fayid to RAF Hurn in Dorset flew into bad weather conditions causing it to fly off course. Tragically, AL577 crashed into high ground near Jenkinstown, Dundalk, Ireland, taking the lives of fourteen airmen and seriously injuring one airman who died three days later of the injuries he'd sustained.
The airmen who perished as a result of this accident were-
RAFVR Flight Lieutenant Francis Charles BARRETT DCF,
RAFVR Sergeant Walter Paul BROOKS,
RAF Sergeant Andrew McMillan Smith BROWNLIE,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant George BUCHANAN,
RAFVR Sergeant Henry James GIBBONS,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Carlton Stokes GOODENOUGH,
RAFVR Sergeant Charles Joseph INGRAM,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Leslie George JORDAN,
RCAF Pilot Officer George Frederick KING,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Paul Herrick MOREY,
RAAF Flight Sergeant Herbert William Thornley SLOMAN,
RAFVR Pilot Officer Wilfred Bertrand STEPHENS,
RAFVR Pilot Officer John Peile TOLSON,
RAF Wing Commander Richard John WELLS DFC and RAAF Flight Sergeant Lindsay Ross WILLIAMS.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/62738
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Air Observer
Age: 28
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 108 RAF Squadron, Night Bomber squadron, Middle East; RAF Fayid, Egypt
(MOTTO: Viribus contractis ["With gathered strength"])
Married, a teacher by trade, residing in Bury, Quebec, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 24 July 1940 in Thetford Mines, Quebec.
Son of Wright E. Goodenough and Eva Louise (née Stokes) Goodenough; husband of Margaret Bagley Goodenough of East Angus, Quebec, Canada.
Flight Sergeant Carlton Stokes Goodenough is commemorated on Page 77 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
And he is remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Bury Cemetery in Bury, Quebec.
Inscription
(Epitaph...)
GREATER LOVE
HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
THAT A MAN LAY DOWN
HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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