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| Name | Webb Maurice Gordon |
| Rank | Sgt |
| Crew position | Wireless Operator / Air Gunner |
| Service | RAF |
| Aircraft | Lancaster ED785 |
| Date of loss | 16/06/1943 |
| Target | Cologne |
| PoW camp(s) | L6/357 |
| PoW number | 283 |
| Maurice died on 12 Jan 1996 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. | |
| 16/17 June, 1943; COLOGNE:
The squadron contributed 9 aircraft to the total force of 202
bombers sent to attack Cologne. The Pathfinders used H2S to place
sky markers over a cloud covered target. Only half the Main Force
managed to bomb with the remainder being turned back due to the
adverse weather. The cost to Bomber Command was 14 Lancasters...
and their crews. Those aircraft that did get through caused widespread
damage to the housing areas of the city. Seven Lancasters landed safely back at Fiskerton, each crew having completed successful trips; but as W/Cmdr Peter Johnson, still in his flying gear, scanned the operations board he realised that 2 more of the squadron's aircraft had failed to come home. S/Ldr George Storey's Lancaster (ED785) had come down in the Scheldt Estuary near Flushing, Holland; the body of the Squadron Leader (on his second tour) was recovered from the sea near Westkapelle on 21 June. He is buried along with five of his fellow crew members in Flushing Cemetery; Sgt Bill Waring's body has never been found; Sgt Webb, the Candian W/AG, managed to bale out and became a PoW (Camp 357). Lancaster ED785 S/L G.G. Storey Pilot (Killed) Sgt G.S Underlin F/E (Killed) F/O R.C Blythe NAV (Killed) Sgt M.G. Webb RCAF W/AG (P.o.W.) Sgt H. Buttrey A/G (Killed) Sgt W.H. Waring B/A (Missing) Sgt M.E. Bunn RCAF A/G (Killed) Sgt Burnside 2nd Pilot (Killed) Crew on their 7th operation |
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| It appears that Maurice flew
with several crews during his period with 49Sqn. He appears in two images taken with the Tickler crew. |
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 26th December 1942 Jack Matthews - navigator George Silvester - rear gunner Art Davies - mid upper gunner Maurice Webb - wireless operator Dennis Downing - flight engineer Ed Tickler - pilot Ted Lowans - bomb aimer |
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 An undated photograph Ted Lowans - bomb aimer Maurice Webb - W.A.G Ted Tickler - pilot W.A. Davies - rear gunner Jack Matthews - navigator |
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