M9353 Regret to inform you that advice has been received from the Royal Canaian Air Force casualties officer overseas that your son Pilot Officer Dennis John Quinlan J six one three nought is reported missing as the result of air operations on August sixteenth nineteen forty two stop in the best interests possible safety of your son you are requested to withold any information from the press or radio until his name appears in official casualty list five weeks hence stop. Letter follows. Chief of...
M9857 Regret to inform you advice received from the Royal Canadian Air Force casualties officer overseas quoting German information received through the international Red Cross states that your son Pilot Officer Dennis John Quinlan J 6130 lost his life on August seventeenth but does not give any additional particulars stop pending further confirmation your son is to be considered missing believed killed stop please accept my sincere sympathy in your great anxiety stop letter follows. RCAF...