Den 19. april 1944 styrtede HAL JP202 i Nordsøen under en minelægningsoperation til Fakse Bugt (omkring her - se Minelægningsområder.)
Hele besætningen omkom. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Navigator) Ernest Joseph Gares, 25 år, var søn af Rudolf og Mary Gares, Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Hans navn er på Panel 250 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC og p299MACR)

1 flyver fra HAL JP202 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 på Nysogn Kirkegård. 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission.

7 flyvere.

On 19 April 1944 HAL JP202 crashed into the North Sea on a minelaying operation to Fakse Bugt (about here - see Minelaying areas.)
All of the crew perished. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Navigator) Ernest Joseph Gares, 25, was the son of Rudolf and Mary Gares, of Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 250, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC and p299MACR)
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this. His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 168. 

1 airman from HAL JP202 was buried in Esbjerg and 1 in Nysogn Churchyard. 5 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 419 (Moose) Squadron * 419 Squadron RCAF 1941 to 1945 has Crew of Halifax JP202.
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 JP202 VR-T took off from RAF Middleton St. George at 20.37 hrs on 18 APR 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Halifax - Bless 'Em All. 7 airmen.