World War II research *COMPLETED*

[De grijze]

  Hi there ,
A colleague of mine is looking for more information about the next person;

Roy Alexander Hodge
Born 16/06/1918 Wellington New Zealand
Flight sergeant number 413756
Son of Peter Frankland Hodge and Ella Hodge
Studied Wellington South School
Professional cabinetmaker with Edward Collie Ltd in Wellington
Shipped for Canada on 14/8/1941
Wireless school Winnipeg Manitoba
Bombing and Gunnery School Paulson Manitoba
Shot down with his Stirling bomber of the 149 R.A.F. bomber squadron in Geetbets (Belgium) 4/7/1943
Got back to England thanks to the inhabitants of Geetbets, the local Belgian resistance and the escape line Comčte, left Gibraltar on 4/10/1943
Questioned by MI-9 on 9/10/1943
Missing offshore Canadian coast on 17/3/1944 in a plane crash with a Dakota Mk.III FL650 of the 32 OTU squadron
Any small piece of information is more than welcome, T6hanks on advance  Luc

[Thamesite2017]

Are you wanting info on the family or life in NZ

Parents are buried at Wallaceville Cem Upper hutt, Peter 1980 Ella 1942
Details at NZ BMD online and there are probates at archives
Bye
Althea

[Thamesite2017]

For watchers the CWGC link is
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2622715
Bye
Althea

[De grijze]

Dear Althea,
We knew that Roy Alexander Hodge was married with Germaine Hodge and that she (they) lived in St Boniface Manitoba Canada. But we don't know what happened with her after Hodge's death. Did she stay in Canada? Was she Canadian? Did they have children? Any information to be able to find out if there are still living relatives somewhere.
Kind Regards
 Luc & Guy Leus

[Thamesite2017]

Unless you track his parents and siblings, maybe the research would prove more fruitful perhaps on a canadian board. Given his death info, residence must have been in Canada
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,166.0.html

If there were connections in NZ, you would think that family details would be on death notices for the father..so asking for a lookup of that could be an answer
Bye
Althea

[De grijze]

Thank You Althea , I've send it to my friend Guy ,
He shell probably made a new territory on the genealogical site for Canada,
Thank you once again
Regards

Luc

[Canterburynorth]

Hi Luc,

I am guessing you have already seen our cenotaph site

http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/general/RecordDetail.aspx?dataset=Cenotaph&SearchID=8171205&Ordinal=1&OriginalID=26139

It is possible to order military records for WW2 if it helps

http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/personnel-records

[De grijze]

Hi Ieandra ,

                      Yes I  have already seen your cenotaph site   but the  possibility to order military records for WW2 is new for me ,

Thank you !
Luc

[32OTU_Research]

Hi there. I'm currently researching the 179 Airmen and women who died during training at 32 Operational Training Unit, Patricia Bay, Vancouver Island, B.C. Canada. The details of the accident that claimed the life of Roy Alexander Hodge are on file at the BC Aviation Museum in Sidney, BC. The record states: "Dakota FL650 vanished during night navigation exercise. Two oxygen cylinders of a type used were recovered in the Pearse Island Group, northern Vancouver Island - Missing"

Crew members aboard the Dakota were Pilot Officer John Benedict Murphy 26 (Irish - RAFVR) and Sgt. Douglas Oliver 23 (English - RAFVR).

A new memorial to the 179 will be dedicated this spring. It is a striking monument with a set of 25  3 metre high feather motifs cut from 3/8" steel plate, with the name, rank and age of each casualty laser-cut through the steel. A description of the monument is available here:
http://www.victoriaairport.com/projects-planning/lost-airmen-of-the-empire-commemorative-sculpture-at-hospital-hill

Let me know if you would like further info. It would be nice to alert family members to the new memorial if anyone can help with that. No dedication date yet.