Cecil Herbert Hurle was a wireless operator/air gunner with 102 Squadron, flying out of RAF Pocklington, Yorkshire.

The other members of the crew were:

Pilot P/O Murray Quinn Moffatt
Flight Engineer Sgt Charles Gerard Gowen
Navigator F/O John Darty Erzinger
Bombardier Sgt Donald Francis Moon
Air gunner P/O Garfield Davies
Air gunner Sgt William James Holman

102 Squadron

On 12 May 1943 they took off at 23.51 from their base in a Halifax II JB799 DY-E for a mission to Duisburg, Germany.

Their Halifax was lost over the North Sea to an unknown cause. The whole crew perished. Three of the crew are buried, the others are commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial.

P/O Moffat is buried at Sage War Cemetery in Germany. Sgt Gowen is buried at Kiel War Cemetery, Germany.

Sgt Cecil Hurle's body washed ashore on the Dutch coast and is buried at Castricum Protestant Churchyard, Plot J. Coll. grave 7.

Castricum, The Netherlands

See also:
P/O Murray Moffatt
Sgt Charles Gowen
F/O John Erzinger
Sgt Donald Moon
P/O Garfield Davies
Sgt William Holman

Sources and Acknowledgements:
Chris Goss, It's Suicide But It's Fun, Crecy Books, 1995
RAF Squadron crest © Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office

Directions to Castricum Protestant Churchyard

Posted 20 November 2005

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