Personnel Index - Detail
Name
PATE
First Names
Gilbert Firth
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAAF
Service Number
A423311
Crew Position
Air Gunner
Posting In
10/43
Posting Out
11/43
Cemetery
Sgt Pate only flew one operation with 49Sqn before being transferred to 467Sqn.
He was killed on May 10th 1944 on a raid against Lille.
Sgt Pate is buried in Lezennes Communal Cemetery.
A picture from around 1948.
The current headstone photographed by Geoff Swallow.
Adam Purcell laying a wreath on F/Sgt Pate's grave. Adam Purcell's great uncle was the Navigator of the doomed Lancaster.