Reed, Norman Lloyd
Personal Information
Rank | WO2 |
Forename(s) | Norman Lloyd |
Surname | Reed |
Gender | M |
Age | 22 |
Date of Death | 23-09-1943 |
Next of Kin | Son of Charles Arthur and Jennie Viola Reed, of Chesley, Ontario, Canada. |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | Handley Page Halifax V |
Serial Number | DK271 |
Markings | NA-Q |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | Germany |
Burial/Memorial Place | Rheinberg War Cemetery |
Grave Reference | 18. H. 7. |
Epitaph | REST IN PEACE. BELOVED SON OF CHARLES AND JEANNIE REED, CHESLEY, ONTARIO, CANADA |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 231 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | R/130233 |
Service | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Group | 6 |
Squadron | 428 (Ghost) |
Squadron Motto | Usque ad finem (To the very end) |
Trade | Navigator |
Country of Origin | Canada |
Other Memorials
Location | Adjacent to fomer St. Georges Hotel, Teesside Airport, County Durham |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Memorial Stone with inscribed slate tablets |
Memorial Text | Dedicated to all who served on 428 (RCAF) Sqn at Middleton St. George during WWII, especially those who made the supreme sacrifice |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Record of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/1849/18 |
Summary of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/1849/17 |
Fellow Servicemen
Please note that this list gives all the losses aboard the quoted aircraft and occasionally these may have occurred on an earlier date when the aircraft was not itself lost. Please check the dates of death carefully.
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 23-09-1943 |
End Date | 24-09-1943 |
Takeoff Station | Middleton St. George |
Day/Night Raid | Night (25% moon) |
Operation | Mannheim- to bomb the northern part of the city which had not sustained much damage in raids earlier this month. 628 aircraft and the now familiar five American B-17s. 32 aircraft Lost (5.1%). Target marking and bombing were accurate but some creepback took place, meaning that towards the end of the raid, bombs were falling in open countryside and into Ludwigshafen, causing significant damage to the I. G. Farben chemical plant. The neighbouring town of Frankenthal was completely burnt out. |
Reason for Loss | Shot down by a combination of flak and a night-fighter from 19000' and crashed at Geinsheim |