Service Number: RNZAF 403556
Unit: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Occupation on Enlistment: Farmer
Military Base: Bourn, Cambs
Unit: 15 Squadron
Command: Bomber Cmnd
Ship: Stirling I
Occupation: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Casualty: Killed in action
Residence Place: Marton, Wellington, New Zealand
Notes: Shot Down By A Night Fighter At Bentelo Near Hengelo During A Raid on Kassel
Source: UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
Link To Three Airman
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/236268385/three-airmen
15 Squadron Stirling Mark I W7624 was shot down 27/28 August 1942 over Delden, Holland. Glen Allen Smith 24, the second Kiwi on board, crawled dying from the crash and was buried soon afterwards alongside the unidentified bodies of two crew.
Three other remains were found when the Stirling was unearthed in May 2005, and were buried with full military honours at 11:30hrs on Thursday, 31th August in Ambt-Delden cemetery, Delden,
It was one of 30 planes lost in a raid on Germany on August 28, 1942.
[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/salute-to-stirling-w7624-640137]
Son of William Johnson Moss and Ivy Myrtle Unita Moss, of Marton, Wellington, New Zealand: husband of Jose Hicken Moss, England.
Unit: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Occupation on Enlistment: Farmer
Military Base: Bourn, Cambs
Unit: 15 Squadron
Command: Bomber Cmnd
Ship: Stirling I
Occupation: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Casualty: Killed in action
Residence Place: Marton, Wellington, New Zealand
Notes: Shot Down By A Night Fighter At Bentelo Near Hengelo During A Raid on Kassel
Source: UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
Link To Three Airman
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/236268385/three-airmen
15 Squadron Stirling Mark I W7624 was shot down 27/28 August 1942 over Delden, Holland. Glen Allen Smith 24, the second Kiwi on board, crawled dying from the crash and was buried soon afterwards alongside the unidentified bodies of two crew.
Three other remains were found when the Stirling was unearthed in May 2005, and were buried with full military honours at 11:30hrs on Thursday, 31th August in Ambt-Delden cemetery, Delden,
It was one of 30 planes lost in a raid on Germany on August 28, 1942.
[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/salute-to-stirling-w7624-640137]
Son of William Johnson Moss and Ivy Myrtle Unita Moss, of Marton, Wellington, New Zealand: husband of Jose Hicken Moss, England.
Service Number: RNZAF 403556
Unit: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Occupation on Enlistment: Farmer
Military Base: Bourn, Cambs
Unit: 15 Squadron
Command: Bomber Cmnd
Ship: Stirling I
Occupation: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Casualty: Killed in action
Residence Place: Marton, Wellington, New Zealand
Notes: Shot Down By A Night Fighter At Bentelo Near Hengelo During A Raid on Kassel
Source: UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
Link To Three Airman
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/236268385/three-airmen
15 Squadron Stirling Mark I W7624 was shot down 27/28 August 1942 over Delden, Holland. Glen Allen Smith 24, the second Kiwi on board, crawled dying from the crash and was buried soon afterwards alongside the unidentified bodies of two crew.
Three other remains were found when the Stirling was unearthed in May 2005, and were buried with full military honours at 11:30hrs on Thursday, 31th August in Ambt-Delden cemetery, Delden,
It was one of 30 planes lost in a raid on Germany on August 28, 1942.
[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/salute-to-stirling-w7624-640137]
Son of William Johnson Moss and Ivy Myrtle Unita Moss, of Marton, Wellington, New Zealand: husband of Jose Hicken Moss, England.
Unit: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Occupation on Enlistment: Farmer
Military Base: Bourn, Cambs
Unit: 15 Squadron
Command: Bomber Cmnd
Ship: Stirling I
Occupation: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Casualty: Killed in action
Residence Place: Marton, Wellington, New Zealand
Notes: Shot Down By A Night Fighter At Bentelo Near Hengelo During A Raid on Kassel
Source: UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
Link To Three Airman
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/236268385/three-airmen
15 Squadron Stirling Mark I W7624 was shot down 27/28 August 1942 over Delden, Holland. Glen Allen Smith 24, the second Kiwi on board, crawled dying from the crash and was buried soon afterwards alongside the unidentified bodies of two crew.
Three other remains were found when the Stirling was unearthed in May 2005, and were buried with full military honours at 11:30hrs on Thursday, 31th August in Ambt-Delden cemetery, Delden,
It was one of 30 planes lost in a raid on Germany on August 28, 1942.
[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/salute-to-stirling-w7624-640137]
Son of William Johnson Moss and Ivy Myrtle Unita Moss, of Marton, Wellington, New Zealand: husband of Jose Hicken Moss, England.
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