324

N.J. MOON.
2. (centre aligned)
F/O Moon proceeded to the United Kingdom early in May, as navigator of Hudson aircraft, the trip from Gander, in Newfoundland, to Prestwick, being made on the 9th in 12 hrs. 10 mins., when he was posted to No. 3 Personnel Reception Centre, Bournemouth. On the 11th July he proceeded to No. 3 School, of General Reconnaissance, Squires Gate, Lancashire, for a navigational course and on the 1st September to No. 7 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit, at Limvady, Northern Ireland, where he crewed up and completed his training as navigator of Wellington torpedo carrying aircraft. On the 17th November he was posted to No. 179 Squadron based on Gibraltar and proceeded by air to join the squadron, the crew making the flight from Portreath, in Cornwall, to Gibraltar on the 19th December. From this base, as navigator of Wellington bomber aircraft, he took part in 20 operational flights being anti-submarine sweeps in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and shipping convoy escorts as far afield as the Canary Islands.

F/O Moon was the navigator of a Wellington aircraft engaged on a convoy escort flight over the Mediterranean on the 8th April, 1943. Owing to the failure of one engine, the aircraft had to be ditched into the sea. All the crew, with the exception of F/O Moon were saved. No sign was seen of F/O Moon after the aircraft hit the water, and he was classified as missing, believed killed in action. In due course his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 8th April, 1943.

5/3/14936 AS2
415 hrs. as navigator.

Mrs. L.B. Moon (M) (right aligned)
317 Adelaide Rd., (right aligned)
WELLINGTON. (right aligned & underlined)