Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- Ernest George Cass -

Name

Ernest George Cass, Son of Herbert James Cass and Thirza Cass (née Woolley), born 1922, Eastry, Kent; husband of Barbara Eileen Cass, of Sherwood, Nottingham; married in Nottingham, 1943.
 
Commemorated on the Freshwater War Memorial

Service details

Flight Sergeant (Flight Engineer) 573138 Ernest George Cass, Royal Air Force

CWGC record ...

Date of Death :	27 April 1944 aged 21
Where buried or commemorated :	Landeville Churchyard, Haute-Marne, France
Aircraft :	Avro Lancaster Mk.I LL919 PG-W of 619 Sqn
Crew :
Pilot :	Flt/Lt G G C Gunzi	CWGC record ...
Navigator :	Flg/Off N Vlassie, RCAF	CWGC record ...
Air Bomber :	Flt/Sgt J W Mills
Wireless Operator :	Flt/Sgt A Pickstone	CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :	P/O L L Feindell, RCAF	CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :	Sgt K Frank	CWGC record ...

The aircraft took off at 21.32 hrs from Dunholme Lodge on operations to Schweinfurt,but crashed at Landeville 13 km SW of Joinville in France. Flt/Sgt Mills survived and was taken Prisoner of War, while all the others are buried at Landeville.

Information provided by : John Bloodworth