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S.E. MOSLEY.
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Here he crewed up and completed his training as navigator of Wellington bomber aircraft. On the 6th July he proceeded to No. 1657 Conversion Unit, Shepherds Grove, Suffolk, for conversion to Stirling aircraft, and late in August converted to Lancaster aircraft at No. 3 Lancaster Finishing School, Woolfox Lodge, Rutland, after which he was posted to No. 75 (NZ) Squadron at Mepal, Cambridgeshire. With this squadron he took part in 10 operational flights, the targets including Neuss in the Ruhr, Wassenar, in Holland; Le Havre, Boulogne, Calais, and the Cape Gris Nez, in France.

F/Sgt. Mosley was the navigator of a Lancaster bomber aircraft which took off on the 5th October, 1944, to bomb Saarbrucken, in Germany. The aircraft failed to return to its base and all the crew, including F/Sgt. Mosley, were classified as missing. Later information was received through the International Red Cross Committee that the bodies of three members of the crew had been found, but there was no news of F/Sgt. Mosley. In due course his death was presumed to have occurred on the 5th October 1944. A post war casualty search revealed that F/Sgt. Mosley was buried in the Walsfield New Church Churchyard, Trier, Germany.

Find a Grave link with a photo of F/Sgt. Mosley: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18407720/stuart_edwin-mosley

5/2/9849 AS2
277 hrs. as navigator.

Mrs. A.J.A. Mosley (M) (right aligned)
Maiai, (right aligned)
Ravensbourne, DUNEDIN (right aligned & town underlined)