Charles
Stanley Mossop DSO was just twenty years of age when
he died in an accident whilst flying a seaplane on 12th
August, 1918.
He was a lieutenant with the Royal Air Force, serving
with 243 Squadron based at Cherbourg. Charles was the
son of Mr and Mrs Charles Mossop, of "Cambray,"
Millbrook, and formerly of Commercial Buildings, St Helier.
It is reported that he died near Port En Bessin in Normandy,
a town which would become synonymous twenty six years
later as being at the heart of Omaha Beach during the
Normandy landings where large numbers of America soldiers
would die there assaulting the beaches. He is also remembered
on the Victoria College Memorial.
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