FONSECA – Donald Everton

Name: FONSECA, Donald Everton
Initials: D E
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Pilot Officer (Nav.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit: 207 Sqn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 21/04/1944
Service No: J/85529
Additional information: Son of Rupert Everton Fonseca and Bertha Ann Catherine Fonseca, of Crossroads, Jamaica.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 16. Row 8. Grave 5.
Cemetery: CLICHY NORTHERN CEMETERY

Lancaster ND564 Mission to La Chapelle

T/O 22.12 Spilsby to bomb railway yards. All but F/Sgt Moss were killed

Crew:
P/O J T Burgess RAAF
Sgt J E N Smith
WO2 D E Fonseca RCAF
F/Sgt H W Moss Evd
Sgt R C Robinson
P/O D R Dearman DFC
Sgt M O’Connor

[Source: www.WW2chat.com]

Service Book (click to enlarge)

[Pictures taken from the Canadian Virtual War Memorial]

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