Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Gray was a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner on Avro Manchester I R5833 of 50 Squadron, which was lost on a 'Gardening' (mine laying) mission in the area known by the code name 'Gorse' - the area of the Baie de Quiberon, just west of St Nazaire in France. Of the seven crew, six including Sgt Gray were killed, and one survived to become a P.o.W.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1942; W.R. Chorley; 1994; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 89 X page 118.
He is remembered in Ashington on A17.43
