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General => World War Two => Armed Forces => WWII In Memoriam => Topic started by: tobyma123 on Monday 05 November 18 12:37 GMT (UK)
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Gordon William Chester Toal WO Pilot 113498 Halifax bomber LK923 427 Lion Squadron,
Royal Canadian Airforce brought down at Manheim Germany still missing.
Son of Thomas and Rhoda Toal Alberta Canada.
Thomas Toal was a farmer and Gordon worked on the farm with his family.
Gordon was my cousin.
tobyma123.
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Hello. Recently I have been learning about my family history and I just found out Gordon was my great uncle. I am a pilot for an airline in Canada and find this very interesting and would love to learn more about what happened. I have a picture of him at my grandparents wedding when we think he was 20. If you have found any more info of what happened to him that would be appreciated.
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Sadly, that night raid had one of the most losses of the war up to then...
Scroll down to just before the image.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ssa/
Didn't find much about the night raid other than targeting resources/rail junction.
Previous recent bombardments would have put some heavy defences into motion.
Losses are listed in number of "aircraft" only.
https://www.northlincsweb.net/103Sqn/html/magdeburg__21-22nd_january_1944.html
This site still has him as "missing" rather than K.I.A.
https://www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca/canadaairwar/canadaairwar1944.pdf
Adding: The aircraft itself has more information on the sortie than of the men themselves.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/231277
Approximate map of above locations http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ss9/