Edward Emile Gervais  Photo: Mogens Jeppesen   Updated: 04 MAR 2021
                                                                      
Airman: a113032.htm Surname: Gervais Init: E E Rank: P/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 405

P_link: p112.htm Plane: HAL W1274 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Ellesø Mose

Crash_d: d240942 Buried_d: b260942 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 2-13

 Den 24. september 1942 styrtede HAL W1274 ned i Ellesø Mose nordøst for Kruså.
Alle 7 besætningsmedlemmer omkom. Flyverne blev begravet den 26. september 1942 i Aabenraa.
Pastor Carl Beuck forestod begravelsen og foretog jordpåkastelsen. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Navigator) Edward Emile Gervais var fra Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

Se monument rejst ved nedstyrtningsstedet her 64 år senere.
Se p112MACR * Halifax Print * Halifax Mk III på YAM 2019 * folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission.
7 flyvere.            

HAL W1274 crashed into Ellesø Moor northeast of Kruså on 24 September, 1942.
All 7 members of the crew perished. The airmen were buried on 26 September, 1942 in Aabenraa.
Vicar Carl Beuck carried out the burial and officiated at the graveside. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Navigator) Edward Emile Gervais was from Canada. (Source: CWGC)
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.  He is remembered on The Walls of Names
at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 169.

See monument erected at the crash site here  64 years later.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF
405 Squadron Association * No. 405 Squadron RAF Pathfinders

Halifax-Wikipedia*Halifax Print*Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Mk III at YAM 2019*LAN-HAL.

Halifax II LQ-R took off from RAF Topcliffe at 19.00 hrs on 23 SEP 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this and details.) See p112MACR. 7 airmen.