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and later at Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, for duty as a wireless operator air gunner on Defiant two seater fighter aircraft. Eleven months later on the 17th November 1942 he was posted to No. 11 Operational Training Unit, first at Westcott and later at Oakely, both in Buckinghamshire. Here, he crewed-up and completed his training on Wellington bomber aircraft. This was followed by his posting on the 4th March 1943 to No. 1651 Conversion Unit, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, to convert to Stirling bomber aircraft prior to his posting on the 9th April 1943 to No. 75 (New Zealand) Squadron, Newmarket, Suffolk. With this squadron as wireless operator air gunner of a Stirling bomber he took part in twenty operational flights comprising attacks on Rostock, Dortmund (2), Bochum, Dusseldorf (2), Wuppertal, Krefeld, Cologne, Hamburg (4), Essen, Berlin and Peenemunde, all in Germany; and Le Creusot in France, and minelaying missions off Bordeaux (2) and in Kiel Bay.

Pilot Officer Moss was wireless operator air gunner of a Stirling bomber which took off on air operations on the night of the 23/24th August 1943 to attack Berlin. The aircraft failed to return to its base and all its crew including Pilot Officer Moss (redacted was) were classified as missing. Due time having elapsed, his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 24th August 1943 as the result of air operations.

The crew of the aircraft contained one other New Zealander, Flight Sergeant F.P. Lundon of Auckland.

Find a Grave link with a photo of Pilot Officer Moss: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18404450/douglas_hamilton-moss

18/1/1728 A.S.2.
617 hours as wireless operator air gunner.

Mrs. J.F. Moss (W) (right aligned)
33, Buxton Street, (right aligned)
Point Chevalier (right aligned)
AUCKLAND. (right aligned & underlined)