Réjeanne Roy never met her father who died in 1943. She was only 5 months-old. She only had a small picture and her father’s precious logbook. Now I have received a large file from Archives Canada with her father’s service record in the RCAF. Jean Baptiste Normand Roy has been missing of the coast of Nova Scotia since with another pilot.
The file on Jean Baptiste Normand Roy has arrived…
À la mémoire du
Lieutenant d’aviation
Jean Baptiste Normand Roy
décédé le 17 mai 1943
Service militaire :
- Numéro matricule : J/20221
- Âge :29
- Force :Aviation militaire
- Unité :Aviation royale du Canada
- Division :128 Sqdn.
Renseignements additionnels :
Fils de Gaudiose et Albina Roy. Fils adoptif de M. et Mme Francis Landry, de Pointe-Verte, Nouveau-Brunswick. Époux de Marie Roy, de Pointe-Verte.
- Cimetière :
- MÉMORIAL D’OTTAWA; Ontario, Canada
- Informations sur la sépulture :
- Panel 2. Column 3.
RCAF No. 403 Squadron 
Dear Darryl
during 1941 your great uncle and my father Douglas Barker Crabtree (616 squadron) together with a French Canadian pilot Larry Robillard escaped from France, bringing back secret plans of ammunition and fuel dumps in the Pas de Calais area. The plans were written on a cigarette paper which I still have. The RAF later destroyed all the installations. They escaped via the famous Pat O’Leary line over the Pyrenees and had some very eventful times while on the escape.
Hank’s widow Madeleine is not in good health and lives in sheltered accommodation supported by her family. Let me have your contact details and I will happily give you further information.
Regards
Neil Crabtree
Update
Dear Pierre
Please find pictures of the actual cigarette paper which was stored in the lining of a beret, picture blow ups of the same, and aerial photo of the area taken by Hurri Bomber. I do have the combat report marked SECRET but it is quite faded now.
Hope this is of interest.
Regards
Neil Crabtree