LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant James Pearce Massey GRACE
Service No: 404582
Born: Brisbane QLD, 10 March 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 11 October 1940
Unit: No. 156 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Warboys
Died: Air Operations: (No. 156 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ED622), Germany, 8 April 1943, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Rheinberg War Cemetery, Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James Pearce Francis and of Winifred Maria Grace, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; husband of Dorothy Mabel Grace, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 123, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2142 hours on the night of 8 April 1943 Lancaster ED622 took off from Warboys detailed to bomb Duisberg, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed near Cologne, Germany, and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of ED622 were:
Pilot Officer Noel Ferguson (404716) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Roderick Henry Flett (403691) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant James Pearce Massey Grace (404582) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Albert James Jackson (1322187) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant Newman G Stopford (656400) (RAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Stanley Musgrave White (15319) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Robert Graham Younger (401344) (Pilot)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/16/54