McINTYRE, NORMAN GREGOR Rank: Flying Officer Service No: 414154 Date of Death: 16/12/1943 Age: 24 Regiment/Service: Royal Australian Air Force Grave Reference: 4. H. 8. Cemetery: BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Peter and Beatrice McIntyre; husband of Maud Eileen Daphne McIntyre, of Wandsworth, London, England.Casualty Details
Informal portrait of 414154 Leading Aircraftman Norman Gregor McIntyre, RAAF, of Cairns, Qld. Norman McIntyre was a clerk prior to enlisting in August 1941. He was attached to No. 97 Squadron, ...
RAAF PERSONNEL SERVING ON ATTACHMENT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONS AND SUPPORT UNITS IN WORLD WAR 2 Source: AWM 237 (65) NAA : A705, 166/5/379 Commonwealth War Graves records W R Chorley :RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Page 421, Volume 1943. Aircraft Type: Lancaster Serial number: JA 963 Radio call sign: OF – Q Unit: ATTD 97 SQN RAF Summary: Lancaster JA963 took off from RAF Bourn at 1655 hours on the night of 16/17th December 1943 to bomb Berlin. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base. Eight aircraft from the squadron failed to return from this mission. Crew: RAF 106881 Flt Lt David James Brill, Captain (Pilot) RAF 137652 Flt Lt Rowland Ernest Handley, (DFM) (2nd Pilot) RAF 572912 Sgt John Stone, (Flight Engineer) RAAF 414154 FO Norman Gregor McIntyre, (Navigator) RAF 139687 PO Robert Butler, (Air Bomber) RAF 19094495 Sgt Harry Chappell, (Wireless Air Gunner) RCAF J/25849 FO Gordon James Little, (Mid Upper Gunner) RAAF 413943 Flt Sgt Ernest John Battle, (Rear Gunner) A Missing Research & Enquiry team later reported “the aircraft was hit by flak and crashed at approx 2300 hours on the 16th December. It exploded in mid air and wreckage was spread over an area of Schiller Park, Berlin.” All the crew were killed. Flt Lt Brill, Flt Lt Handley, Sgt Stone and Sgt Chappell have no known grave and their names are commemorated on the Memorial to the Missing, Runnymede, Surrey, UK. FO McIntyre, PO Butler, FO Little and Flt Sgt Battle are buried in the Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery. Germany. RAF 106881 Flt Lt Brill, David James Captain (Pilot) Aged 22, Son of Sqdn. Ldr. and Mrs. Claude Cecil Brill, of Corsham, Wiltshire. RAF 137652 Flt Lt Handley, Rowland Ernest (DFM) (2nd Pilot) Aged 32, Son of Ernest and Emma Handley; husband of Hilda Cecilia Handley, of Southend-on-Sea, Essex. RAF 572912 Sgt John Stone, (Flight Engineer) NO AGE OR NOK LISTED RAAF 414154 FO Norman Gregor McIntyre, (Navigator) Aged 24, Son of Peter and Beatrice McIntyre; husband of Maud Eileen Daphne McIntyre, of Wandsworth, London, England. RAF 139687 PO Robert Butler, (Air Bomber) Aged 20, Son of Robert and Ellen Butler, of Stafford. RAF 19094495 Sgt Harry Chappell, (Wireless Air Gunner) Aged 23, Son of Harry and Gladys Chappell, of Southey, Yorkshire. RCAF J/25849 FO Gordon James Little, (Mid Upper Gunner) Aged 21, Son of Charles Arthur Little, and of Sybil Elizabeth Little, of Lorain, Ohio, U.S.A. RAAF 413943 Flt Sgt Ernest John Battle, (Rear Gunner) Aged 22, Son of Ernest James Battle and Alma Ellen Battle, of Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
I posted the MREU documentation from this loss earlier but as it is an incredibly graphic report I thought better of it and Adam was kind enough to delete them for me. For anybody wishing to read the report: View digital copy (pages 12 to 15 of 47) Regards, Dave
Although F/O Little's next of kin show an American address, he was Canadian. Born 30 October, 1922 in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) Ontario, he grew up in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. From enlistment until at least the time his will was probated, his dad was living in Manitoba and his mother in Ontario.