Garth S. Taylor                                                                                              Updated: 05 OCT 2021

Airman: e555019.htm Surname: Taylor Init: G S Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 83

P_link: p231.htm Plane: LAN JA972 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off Holland

Crash_d: d041043 Buried_d: e555 C_link: e555.htm At_Next: HOLLAND

Den 4. oktober 1943 styrtede LAN JA972 under et bombetogt mod Kassel (her) i Nordsøen ud for Hollands kyst. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p231MACR)

F. R. Heeley blev fundet drevet ind på Meyers Sand (omkring her) syd for Fanø. Den 4. januar 1944 blev han begravet i Esbjerg. (Kilde: AOD)

Flight Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Garth Shearly Taylor, 21 år, var søn af Albert Josiah og Agnes Purdie Shearly Taylor, Montreal,
Province of Quebec, Canada.
Han blev begravet på TERSCHELLING (WEST-TERSCHELLING) GENERAL CEMETERY, Grav 111, i HOLLAND.
(Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra LAN JA972 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 4 i HOLLAND. 2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.

Se Lancaster Fotos. 7 flyvere.

On 4 October 1943 LAN JA972 on a bombing raid targeting Kassel (here) crashed in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. No survivors. (Source: p231MACR)

F. R. Heeley was found washed ashore on Meyer's Sand (about here) south of Fanø. On 4 January 1944 he was buried in Esbjerg. (Source: AOD)

Flight Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Garth Shearly Taylor, 21, was the son of Albert Josiah and Agnes Purdie Shearly Taylor, of Montreal,
Province of Quebec, Canada.
He was buried in TERSCHELLING (WEST-TERSCHELLING) GENERAL CEMETERY, Grave 111, in HOLLAND. (Source: CWGC)
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this. He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 105.

1 airman from LAN JA972 was buried in Esbjerg and 4 in HOLLAND. 2 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 83 Squadron RAF -WikipediaLancaster Photos.

Lancaster III JA972 OL-D took off from RAF Wyton at 1855 hrs on 03 OCT 1943 targeting Kassel. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this)  7 airmen.