Nelson Frank Goheen

Monuments

Canada's Bomber Command Memorial Panels

ISOB Frank Goheen Nelson

Name:

Frank Goheen Nelson

Rank:

Warrant Officer

Serial Number:

R/79092

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Date of Death:

1943-01-31

State:

Pennsylvania

Cemetery:

Dishforth Cemetery, Dishforth, Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire, England

Plot:

USA

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Frank Goheen Nelson was born on April 15, 1918. He was the son of Frank Goheen Nelson and Frances C. Wilks Nelson of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.

Frank served in the 9 (RAF) Squadron as a Warrant Officer of the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He was Killed in Action on January 31, 1943, when his Lancaster aircraft #CD 481 was returning from a trip to Hamburg, Germany. The aircraft suffered engine failure and crashed at Hawngy Moor, Yorkshire.
The casualties of that accident were:-
RCAF Sergeant McKeen ALLEN,
RAFVR Sergeant Arthur William BUTCHER,
RAFVR Sergeant George Francis DONE,
RAFVR Sergeant Henry Summers JONES,
RAFVR Sergeant Walter George MURTON,
RCAF Warrant Officer Frank Goheen NELSON and
RAFVR Sergeant Allan Arthur Frederick WILLIAMS.

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