Hunting a Memorial Cross!

[RCAF_Mike]

How hard can it be right? I', broadcasting this request over every Canadian Military forum, page etc.... that I know of, hoping somebody knows something!


I am on the hunt for a Memorial Cross for this chap. Frank Albert Casson RCAF. He was attached to the RAF on Liberators out of India when his plane was shot down and the survivors from his crew were taken prisoner by the Japanese. Frank died due to Nervous Beri Beri while interned. I've had some documents and photos from his family for a while now, and am happy to soon get another piece of the set. I have his spare AG wing that was returned to his mother with his personal effects along with his OPS wing. All I would need is the Memorial Cross. It could have the service number R19163 or J95147. I'm unsure of the number because according to his file he was shot down as a Sgt, appointed a WO one day after his capture, and then upon his death and subsequent notification to the family commissioned as a Pilot Officer.
Finding this cross is very important to me


Thanks!

[Bill A]

Hi Mike, I am sure you have explored this with the family. The Mem Cross would have been sent to the mother. Have you checked with the family about the Cross? (In two cases I researched, the mother was buried with the crosses.)

[RCAF_Mike]

No Bill. I haven't yet. I haven't even checked yet to see if any of the family is even still around. The grouping was acquired by my grandfather at least 20 years ago. Miraculously another document pertinent to the group will be reunited with the rest in the near future. It's been a very sentimental group to me because of the personal detail a few of the documents contain, but actual contact with the family, I have had none. This is just the first of the "feelers" I'm extending