Keith Maxwell Mosher Flying Officer J/21553 428 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force April 28, 1923 Lower LaHave, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia February 18, 1942 Halifax, NS Lower LaHave, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia 18 6 feet Medium Brown Brown Single Grocery Salesman Presbyterian Robert Josiah Henry Mosher (Father) Lower LaHave, Lunenburg Co., NS December 20, 1943 20 Rheinberg War Cemetery 9. G. 6. Keith Maxwell Mosher was the son of Robert Josiah Henry Mosher (1882-1980) and Hattie Mae (Falkenham) Mosher (1885-1968) of Lower LaHave, Lunenburg Co., NS. Keith completed his Grade XI in 1939 at Riverport High School. At the Maritime Business College in 1939-1940 he then completed a stenographic course including shorthand, typing, and some bookkeeping. In August of 1940 he was employed as a Grade I Clerk in the Pilot Office, Department of Transport, Halifax, until December of 194. He then worked as an Office Clerk/Salesman with Armstrong Associated Brothers also in Halifax until his enlistment with the RCAF. He enjoyed skating, swimming, played volleyball and baseball, and occasionally hockey. Enlisting in February 1942 Keith completed training in Canada and obtained his Air Observer’s Badge on December 4, 1942. On January 4, 1943, he embarked Canada and disembarked in the United Kingdom on January 12, 1943. He continued training in England and was assigned to No. 194 RAF Squadron on May 6, 1943. He was then posted to RAF Dalton in Yorkshire, England, which hosted various squadrons, including No. 428 Squadron RCAF, and served as a Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU) for training on larger bombers like the Halifax. On November 23, 1943, he was taken on strength with 428 Squadron. At 3:55 pm on December 20, 1943, No. 428 Squadron Halifax aircraft, LK928, with a crew of 7, left RAF Dalton and failed to return from an operational attack on Frankfurt-on-Main. Flying Officer Keith Mosher was the Air Observer on the flight. This was his first air operation with the Squadron. A telegram from the International Red Cross Committee quoted German information that Flying Officer Mosher and RCAF Sergeant G H Jessiman (R/68645) were killed when the aircraft crashed. It was later determined that three RAF members of the crew were also killed in the crash. RCAF Flight Sergeant E. G. Tycoles (R/128073) was taken as a Prisoner of War and died in captivity on February 24, 1943. RCAF Flight Sergeant J. L. Keighan (R/131253) was taken as a POW and survived. Born in 1916 he died in 1993 at the age of 77. The six members of the crew who lost their lives are buried in the Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany. Flight Sergeant, Elmer Lawrance Tycoles was from Gilbert Plains, Dauphin Census Division, Manitoba, Canada. (Age 20). Sergeant George Herkis Jessiman was from Ontario, Canada. (Age 22)

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