CREW MEMBER PROFILE |
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Surname: |
GAGE |
First Name/s: |
Frank Harry |
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Service No/s: |
1318498 |
Service: |
RAFVR |
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Wireless Operator |
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SERVICE RECORDS |
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Event |
Aircraft Flown |
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07 Dec 1943 |
Joined No. 576 Squadron, 'B' Flight at Elsham Wolds, Linconshire. |
Lancaster |
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576 Squadron FLYING RECORDS |
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Date |
Aircraft |
Code |
Flight Details |
T/O |
Land |
Flt Time |
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16 Dec 1943 |
W4245 |
UL-S2 |
BERLIN |
1630 |
1900 |
2h30 |
P1 Flt Sgt H.R. Marsden |
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Target: Built-up Area Returned early, Port inner-low oil pressure. Bomber Texel Island as last resort |
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20 Dec 1943 |
W4123 |
UL-R2 |
FRANKFURT |
1700 |
FTR |
nk |
P1 Flt Sgt F. Ball |
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Target: Built-up area Load: 1x 4,000lb 'Cookie', 56x 30lb and 1,122x 4lb incendiaries Shot down over Sint-Pieters-Voeren, NE of Liege, by a Bf-110 flown by Oblt. Werner Baake of 3./NJG 1 from Venlo airfield. The aircraft crashed in the Red Wood, 1km S of De Planck at 1930 Buried in Haverlee War Cemetery, Coll. Grave 5.B.5-7 ‘GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS’ |
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PERSONAL INFORMATION |
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Frederick Henry Gage was born 5 (or 9) June1922 in Rye, Sussex, youngest son of Engineer Commander Henry Frederick Gage, RN, and Dorothy Nelly Wood. He had two older brothers: Frederick John Noel (1918-1943 k. in N Africa) and Charles Franklin (1920 - 1999. He attended Portsmouth Grammar School and in September 1939 is shown as residing at Pies Hotel, Sea Road, Bournemouth, Dorset. He was probably evacuated here as he was still at school and PGS moved out of Portsmouth at that time. His family were living at 48 Carmarthen Avenue, East Cosham, Portsmouth, Hampshire in September 1939. Frank was killed on air operations over Keith Gould |
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