First names 429 RCAF sqdn crew

[Alain57]

Hello ,

Is there someone who can help me with the first names off the following 429 sqdn crew :

P/O Augusta F.K. RCAF
Sgt Henderson A.H.
F/O Potts W.H. RCAF
Sgt Gear F.G. RCAF
F/S Ladner A. RCAF
F/S Linstead J.B. RCAF
F/S McLeod H.D. RCAF

Regards Alain57

[dp_burke]

If you contact, write a letter, to the Canadian national archvies they can confirm the full name and serial number(s) of the men listed above and I think give you their last unit.

Contact details are here:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/g...909.007-e.html

This is different to men who died or who are dead more than 20 years, their records are availbale to the public.

[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Hello Alain,

Could you please complete your question: when/were/what happened with this crew members > if they became prisoners, someone who wants to help can search in POW related sources.
Did they all perish in a crash (if there was a crash at all), someone who wants to help can jump to the CWGC or other Roll of Honour lists.

Marcel

[Alain57]

Hello Gents ,

Thanks for the quick reply , this crew bailed out on october 14 1944 over Belgium , they were all safe , the aircraft came down near the town of Keerbergen.

Regards
Alain57

[predictedflak]

Good chance here's the skipper.

http://www.legacy.com/CAN/Obituaries...onId=144235880

[richard.k]

A bit more for you.
Linstead, John Blair KIA 426 Sqn Mar 5,1945
McLeod, Harold Dick KIA 426 Sqn Mar 5,1945
Richard

[Alain57]

Hello ,

Thank you all for the reply.

Alain57

[Henk Welting]

F/Sgt John Blair LINSTEAD - R/222288 (P/O J/94527), from High River, Alberta and F/Sgt Harold Dick McLEOD - R/196971 (P/O J/94365), from Toronto, Ontario were both killed on Halifax PN 228.
AUGUSTA, HENDERSON, POTTS, LADNER, McLEOD and LINSTEAD also crashlanded their Halifax LV 965 22.22 hrs 9-10-1944 on airfield Old Buckenham in Norfolk. The Halifax near Keerbergen was MZ 453.

Henk.

[Alain57]

Thanks Henk

Alain57

[steven volckaerts]

Dear all,

since few years I am studying the crash of Halifax MZ453. Mr. Augusta confirmed that he landed with the parachute in Keerbergen and it might be possible that the plane crashed in Tremelo, the village where I live. Does somebody know how/where we possible may find the confirmation about the correct crashlocation ? The civil records of Tremelo do not contain any information about the crash but there are several eye-witnesses who visited the wreckage of an "olive coloured allied airplane" in my village. We also found a smal part of a kind of a tank but untill now, we do not have official confirmation about the identity of the plane that crashed at this location.

Many thanks in advance for your help

Steven