Photo: Dorothy Hall

638160 Sergeant
J. McGoldrick
Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
7th June 1944 Age 22

Pray For The Repose
Of The Soul Of Joseph
Who Died For God And Country
R.I.P.

Son of Joseph and Mary Ellen McGoldrick, of Tantobie.

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:

Sgt. McGoldrick was killed when Handley Page Halifax II DT554 GV-P of 1652 Heavy Conversion Unit was lost on a training flight. The Halifax took off from Marston Moor airfield for a fighter affiliation exercise, but crashed some 5 miles west of Ripon. Of the seven crew, four were injured, and Sgt. McGoldrick succumbed to his injuries at York Military Hospital at 19.20 hours.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses: Vol. 8; Heavy Conversion Units and Miscellaneous Units, 1939-1947;W.R. Chorley; 2003; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 156 3, page 116

Joseph McGoldrick is remembered in Burnopfield on B155.01 and in Byermoor on B158.02

An account of the accident
The CWGC entry for Sergeant McGoldrick