LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Noel Percy MORSE
From Australia serving in the Royal New Zealand Air Force
Service No: 404397 (RNZAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RNZAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 57 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Feltwell, Norfolk
Died: Air Operations: (No. 57 Squadron Wellington III aircraft X3757), North West Europe, 8 April 1942, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Percy Algernon and Beatrice Morse, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 116, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
At 2205 hours on 8 April 1942 Wellington X3757 took-off from Feltwell to attack Hamburg, Germany. The aircraft was lost without trace and all crew members are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sergeant Graham Lakeman (1307040) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant James Edward Linehan (934056) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Pilot Officer Noel Percy Morse (RNZAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant Norman Joseph Naylor (916232) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Roland Geoffrey Richards (1113440) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner) Aged 18 Years
Flight Sergeant George Hillary Vogan (404577) (RNZAF) (Observer)
References:
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 3 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1942, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1994
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records