Memorial Handley Page Halifax MZ376

The text on the memorial is:
HALIFAX MK III
CRASHED 1-11-1944

AVROY JACOBS
JAMES FRASER
WILLIAM J. GIBSON
GORDON E. VERNON
WALTER YUNSKO
ROBERT J. KAY
HAROLD W. BOTTERILL

Took off from RAF Skipton on Swale at 16:54
Claim by Fw Hans-Eugene 4/NJG1 - Maastricht-Sittard area (NM) 2,300m at 20:48.
Crashed at Heerdstraat Echt.
Crew
Pilot: J/88163 Plt Off Avroy Jacobs RCAF - Nederweert War Cemetery Plot IV Row E Grave 11.
Flight Engineer: 1880548 Sgt Gordon Ernest Vernon - Nederweert War Cemetery Plot IV Row E Grave 12.
Navigator: J/37166 Fg Off James Fraser RCAF - Nederweert War Cemetery Plot IV Row C Grave 12.
Bomb Aimer: J/95158 Plt Off William James Cameron Gibson RCAF - Nederweert War Cemetery Plot IV Row C Grave 13.
Wireless Operator: J/95365 Plt Off Robert James Kay RCAF - Nederweert War Cemetery Plot IV Row D
Collective Grave 11-13.
Air Gunner: J/95475 Plt Off Walter Yunsko RCAF - Nederweert War Cemetery Plot IV Row D Collective Grave 11-13.
Air Gunner: R/196196 Flt Sgt Harold Wallace Botterill (USA) RCAF - Nederweert War Cemetery Plot IV Row D
Collective Grave 11-13.
(Source: BCL 1944 - W R Chorley, Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1944 - Theo Boiten, CWGC)

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Source

• Text: Arjan Vrieze + John Jones
• Photos: Arjan Vrieze (1, 2, 3), Dick de Bruijne (4)