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MONTGOMERY, FRANK CHARLES

    Originating from: Toronto Ontario Canada
    Date of birth (dd-mm-yyyy): 15-12-1922
    Born in: Toronto Ontario Canada
    Parents: Robert Ivan and Edith L. Montgomery-Turl.
    Date of death (dd-mm-yyyy): 21-07-1944
    Age at death: 21 year
    Reason of death: Returning from a flight in Homberg, his plane was targeted and crashed.
    Presumed place of death: Border area Dongen/Tilburg North Brabant, the Netherlands.
    Temporary cemetery: Vredehof Military Cemetery in Tilburg
    Final cemetery: Canadian War Cemetery
    Grave number (plot, row, grave): 05 G 11
    Rank: Flying Officer
    Service number: J/28240
    Country served: Canada

    Regiment:

    Royal Canadian Air Force

    Unit:

    622 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

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    Frank Charles Montgomery
    Frank with his grandmother in Canada Source : www.ancestry.co.uk
    A photo of the crew at U.T.O. No. 26 where the Vickers Wellington was flown Edward Albert O'Connor later joined the crew, as the Wellington did not have a senior intermediate gunner. Back row left to right: Francis Donald Brandom, presumably Reginald Ivon Lewis and Jack Spencer. Front row: John Joseph Chigwidden, presumably Alan Leslie Smith and Frank Charles Montgomery. Dated late 1943. Source: Photographer: unknown, Chigwidden family archives.
    The crash site in 2021, photographed from the canal embankment. In the distance, the building of the van Eijk construction company at 48 Vierbundersweg in Tilburg can be seen. The wreckage of the plane had already been excavated by the Germans in 1944. Photo : Mark de Weerd