Rank | Pilot Officer (Air Gnr.) |
Service # | J/90244 |
Unit # | RCAF, 431 Iroquois Sqdn. |
Son of Hugh H. and Margaret B. McPherson, of Blenheim, Ontario, Canada.
Mickey was reported as “officially” reported as Missing In Action in an unidentified newspaper article (P) as of 7 June 1943.
Age: 22, KIA – Date of Death: 17/06/1944, in Halifax bomber MZ 520 on Air Ops. target Sterknade, Germany, was shot down over Udenhout, Germany. All of the crew was lost.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Sources | “The First 200 Years” by Alvin Armstrong. Index of Overseas Deaths. They Shall Grow Not Old. Blenheim IODE Tablet of Remembrance., HEIRS – T. Steele. |
Supplemental Information | Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead, Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 1. Cemetery: UDENHOUT (BIEZENMORTEL) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY |
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