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 Casualties Officer