Three more RCAF officers

[Phil Listemann]

Morning All,

First of all thanks again for those who provided the missing data for the previous list. That was of great help.
I would have three more RCAF officers for whom I'm looking for their first names, all have served with 214 Sqn in 1945:

D.W. HALL (J39349)
J.W. CARTER (J37715)
S. HOSSNER (J45404)

Thanks in anticipation

Phil

[ianh]

Hi Phil

I have no specific answers for you at the moment, but could I just ask the reason for your interest in these RCAF and RNZAF aircrew from 214 Sqn?

Just wondering as I've been researching 214 for many years now and have put together from the ORB's a complete listing of all their aircrew and the ops they flew on from mid-'43 to the end of the war.

Regards

Ian


Edit - By the way your "S Hossner" was in fact Steve Nessner, one of 214's Spec Ops

[Phil Listemann]

Hi Ian,

I'm completing a study on the Fortress II and III in the RAF and RCAF in my SQUADRONS! series and of course the 214 is totally concerned. I've got some guys I still have to identify with first names and service number and involved in aircraft losses, so any help regarding the following men would be very appreciated and maybe to save me time as well as I imagine I would be able to trace some of them after a long investigation:

SR381:
Sgt K.W. Bailey
F/Sgt S. Mather
Sgt AE Lester

HB763:
F/Sgt AC Smith (PoW but there are two F/Sgt Smith in PoW lists!)

HB767
Sgt R Cooper

HB800
Sgt AW Ramsey

KJ103
F/O N.T. Scott
Sgt D.V. LEwis
F/Sgt R. Smith
Sgt B.J. Lunn
Sgt RNJ Willing
Sgt C. Brown

HB815
Sgt A. McDirmid

HB802
Sgt L.C. Pound
Sgt R. Gamble
Sgt B. Burgess
F/Sgt A.D. MacIntosh

HB803
F/O P.J. Anderson
F/O F.T.A. Burnett
P/O J.A. Morton
F/Sgt H.T. Hamrsworth
W/O J. Hunter
F/Sgt G. Mercer
W/O L.T. Wheeler

KJ125
F/L K. Crosbie
F/Sgt H.I. Collings
Sgt S.G. Edwards
F/Sgt D.E. Astbury
Sgt A.E. Mercer
Sgt H.J. Heath
Sgt T. Sullivan
and the 3 Canadians who opened this thread.

Any help regarding those men would be very appreciated.

Many thanks

Phil

[paulmcmillan]

S. HOSSNER (J45404)
is

Fg/Off Stephen Nessner

I think me may be originally "Stefan"

undermentioned is retired on medical grounds :
T/F/0 S. Nessner, CAN(J45404 )
8 Apr 48

[ianh]

Hi Phil

Happy to help where I can. I'm at work so don't have access to my records at the moment, but have added a few names below from memory, which I believe to be correct.

Have you looked on the 214 Sqn website? I think you'll probably find a number of these men named there.

Regards

Ian


[QUOTE=Phil Listemann;124674]Hi Ian,

I'm completing a study on the Fortress II and III in the RAF and RCAF in my SQUADRONS! series and of course the 214 is totally concerned. I've got some guys I still have to identify with first names and service number and involved in aircraft losses, so any help regarding the following men would be very appreciated and maybe to save me time as well as I imagine I would be able to trace some of them after a long investigation:

SR381:
F/Sgt S. Mather [Stanley?]
Sgt AE Lester [Albert? Murray Peden refers to him as 'Bert', I seem to recall]

KJ103
F/O N.T. Scott [Neil]
Sgt RNJ Willing [Richard?]

HB815
Sgt A. McDirmid [Alastair]

HB802
Sgt R. Gamble [Raymond? - 'Ray']

HB803
F/O P.J. Anderson [Peter]
P/O J.A. Morton [John]

[jossleclercq]

On HB767 : Sgt Raymond Cooper. He came back in Calais in November 1990 to see again the place he had known when his Fortress was lost off the town.

Joss

[vrajm]

Hi Phil,

D.W. HALL - navigator (J39949) not (J39349). I can’t find his full name.

R73188 John William Carter (J37715)
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/...danrvjiv629gl2

R209715 Stephen Nessner (J45404)
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/...danrvjiv629gl2

Mojmir

[vrajm]

R170541 Donald Winfield HALL (J39949) Navigation Officer "B"

Mojmir

[alieneyes]

KJ103
152592 F/O Neil Thompson Scott
1083677 F/Sgt David Vaughan Lewis
1592289 F/Sgt Robert Smith
1895983 Sgt Bernard James Francis Lunn
1896166 Sgt Richard James Willing
1892486 Sgt Cecil Brown

Regards,

Dave