John Gruber

Pilot Officer John Anthony Gruber was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1915, in Ashton, the son of Luxembourgian-born Pierre Anthony, who worked as a foreman mechanic at the time of his naturalization in 1935,The London Gazette (34168), p. 3704. 7 June 1935, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2015. and Mary Ellen Gruber (née O'Connor). Commissioned on 19 Novembr 1941,The London Gazette (35557), p. 2079. 12 May 1942, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2015. Gruber was serving as a pilot with 218 Squadron at the time of death.
Aged 27, Gruber died on 28 August 1942, when his Short Stirling was shot down two kilometres west of Elst by a German nightfighter while engaged on an operation against Kassel. Two of the crew survived and were taken prisoner (one of whom died in captivity).Smith, Stephen C. (2015), From St Vith to Victory: 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron and the Campaign Against Nazi Germany, p. 108.
He is buried in Uden War Cemetery, The Netherlands.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Gruber, John Anthony, cwgc.org. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
Category:1915 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:British people of Luxembourgian descent
Category:Buried in the Netherlands
Category:Pilot Officers