In Memoriam - Those Air Force Pilots/Crews who died on this day in WW2.

1942

26th September


HARDEN, JACK BRUCE Flight Sergeant 411320 12sq RAF 26/09/1942 30 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 111. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

MITCHELL, PHILLIP ROSSITER Flight Sergeant 406812 12sq RAF 26/09/1942 26 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 111. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

RICH, ALWYN CHARLES Flight Sergeant 403375 12sq RAF 26/09/1942 29 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 111. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

THOMPSON, HAROLD CLASSEN Flight Sergeant 401864 12sq RAF 26/09/1942 33 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 111. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

WARD, JACK STRATFORD Flying Officer 402989 12sq RAF 26/09/1942 29 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 111. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

 

1940

25th September

Forgot to include this lad!

HOLLAND, KENNETH CHRISTOPHER Sergeant 754503 152sq RAF 25/09/1940 20 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve UK WEYMOUTH CREMATORIUM UK Dorset

BOB
Sgt K.C.Holland of No 152 Squadron was killed on the 25th of September 1940 at 12:00hrs. His Spitfire I (N3173) was shot down while he was attacking a He 111 West of Bristol.

Kenneth Christopher Holland was born in 1920 in Sydney, New South Wales. In the mid-thirties he was living in Camelford, Cornwall in the care of a guardian, a Mr Ripley. He was at Airspeed Aeronautical College in 1936-37 and joined the RAFVR in 1939 as an Airman u/t Pilot. Called up at the outbreak of war, Holland completed his flying training and joined 152 Squadron at Acklington in June 1940.


On September 17th Holland shared in the destruction of a Ju88 and on the 19th he shot another down into the sea. On the 25th Holland attacked a He111 and set it on fire. Seeing a parachute, he went in for a closer look but was shot down by a gunner still in the stricken Heinkel. His Spitfire, N3173, crashed near Church Farm, Woolverton. Holland was found to have been shot in the head. The Heinkel crashed at Church Farm. The crew of four were killed, only the pilot baling out and being captured.


Holland was cremated at Weymouth Crematorium but the fate of his ashes is not recorded.

His guardian had a memorial stone placed near the site of the crash.

Battle of Britain Monument London - British Pilots List - A


Kenneth Christopher Holland

Service number: 754503



Rank: Sergeant

Unit: No 152 Squadron

Service: Royal Air Force

Conflict: 1939-1945

Date of death: 25 September 1940

Place of death: Over Wolverton, England.

Cause of death: Killed in action

Cemetery or memorial details: WEYMOUTH CREMATORIUM, Dorset, United Kingdom

 

1942

25th September

BANNISTER, JOHN RUSSELL Sergeant 408166 223sq 25/09/1942 23 Royal Australian Air Force Australian A IV. G. 6. EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY Egypt

BUCHANAN, NORMAN ROSS Sergeant 406609 223sq 25/09/1942 22 Royal Australian Air Force Australian A IV. G. 4. EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY Egypt

KETTLE, ANDREW MURRAY Sergeant 401170 223sq 25/09/1942 26 Royal Australian Air Force Australian A IV. G. 5. EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY Egypt

Details of the above loss's.......

25 September 1942

223 Squadron
Baltimore II AG814
Op. Training

The aircraft crashed on take-off 1520 hrs Landing Ground 86 (Egypt) and was destroyed by fire. The cause was thought to fuel starvation of the engines, perhaps because of pilot error.

There was one other crew member also killed....Sgt. G H. Patterson.

'Bomber losses In The Middle East And Mediterranean'. - David Gunby / Pelham Temple

 

1942

26th September


HARDEN, JACK BRUCE Flight Sergeant 411320 12sq RAF 26/09/1942 30 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 111. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

MITCHELL, PHILLIP ROSSITER Flight Sergeant 406812 12sq RAF 26/09/1942 26 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 111. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

RICH, ALWYN CHARLES Flight Sergeant 403375 12sq RAF 26/09/1942 29 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 111. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

THOMPSON, HAROLD CLASSEN Flight Sergeant 401864 12sq RAF 26/09/1942 33 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 111. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

WARD, JACK STRATFORD Flying Officer 402989 12sq RAF 26/09/1942 29 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 111. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

Details of the above loss's.....

26-27 September 1942

12 Squadron
Wellington III BJ776 PH-V
Op. Gardening

Took off 1930 hrs Wickenby. Lost without trace.

BCL Vol.3 - W R. Chorley

 

1940

27th September

MILLER, ROGERS FREEMAN GARLAND Pilot Officer 42419 609sq RAF 27/09/1940 20 Royal Air Force UK S.E. of church. RADFORD SEMELE (ST. NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD UK Warwickshire

BOB
P/O R.F.G.Miller an Australian of No 609 Squadron was killed on the 27th of September 1940 at 11:45hrs. His Spitfire I (X4107) collided with a Bf 110 of ZG 26 near Kingcome in Dorset.


Rogers Freeman Garland Miller

Service number: 42419

Rank: Pilot Officer

Unit: No 609 Squadron

Service: Royal Air Force

Conflict: 1939-1945

Date of death: 27 September 1940

Place of death: Died over Chesilbourne, near Kingcombe

Cemetery or memorial details: RADFORD SEMELE (ST. NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

 

1939


28th September

CAMERON, IVAN MCLEOD Wing Commander 24225 110sq RAF 28/09/1939 31 Royal Air Force UK 26. E. 6. REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY GERMANY Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen



Wing Commander Ivan McLeod Cameron (RAF)
Possibly the first Australian to have been "killed in action" was Wing Commander Ivan McLeod Cameron, who was serving with Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) at the outbreak of war. Wing Commander Cameron, of 110 Squadron RAF, was on a reconnaissance flight over Germany on 28 September 1939 with the intention of investigating the Munster area when his Bristol Blenheim bomber, serial N6212, was intercepted and shot down by a German pilot, Feldwebel Klaus Faber, of l/JG I, Luftwaffe. The Blenheim crashed near Kiel, Germany. Wing Commander Cameron is buried at Reichswald Forest Cemetery, Kleve in Germany.

From the Melbourne Argus Newspaper, Monday 2nd October 1939.
BEALIBA, Sunday. - Relatives of Acting Wing-Commander Ivan McLeod Cameron have received a cable message from the British Ministry that he was reported missing after air operations on Thursday last.
Acting Wing-Commander Cameron, who was appointed to this position In September, 1938, was born at Bealiba in 1908. His father was the late Alexander Cameron, who owned the Bealiba sheep station, his Mother Isabel Louise Cameron nee Sawell, and the Rev. D. A. Cameron, a former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, is an uncle.
Acting Wing-Commander Cameron was educated at the Maryborough High School and Geelong College. After spending several months with the R.A.A.F. in Victoria he left Australia for England in 1927 on a four years' short-term commission in the Royal Air Force. On completion of this term he spent two years with the R.A.F. doing his engineering course, and was then appointed permanently to the R.A.F. He was transferred to Iraq, where he spent two years, then returned to Australia, where he served for three months with a bomber transport squadron. He then returned to Iraq for 12 months, where he was transferred back to England and promoted to Squadron Leader.

Any further info including crew etc would be most welcome.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Any further info including crew etc would be most welcome.

The crew of Blenheim N6212 110 Squadron lost on 28 September 1939 were.....

W/C. I. McLeod Cameron
Sgt. T C. Hammond
AC1. T. Fullerton

 

The crew of Blenheim N6212 110 Squadron lost on 28 September 1939 were.....

W/C. I. McLeod Cameron
Sgt. T C. Hammond
AC1. T. Fullerton

Thanks Peter.

CWGC report's for Cameron, Hammond, Fullerton!


In Memory of
Wing Commander IVAN MCLEOD CAMERON

24225, 110 Sqdn., Royal Air Force
who died age 31
on 28 September 1939
Son of Alexander and Isabel Louise Cameron, of Bealiba, Victoria, Australia.
Remembered with honour
REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY



In Memory of
Sergeant THOMAS CECIL HAMMOND

562535, 110 Sqdn., Royal Air Force
who died age 27
on 28 September 1939
Son of Charles Robert and Louisa May Hammond, of Dublin, Irish Republic.
Remembered with honour
REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY


In Memory of
Aircraftman 1st Class THOMAS FULLERTON

522192, 110 Sqdn., Royal Air Force
who died
on 28 September 1939

Remembered with honour
REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

 

1939


29th September

SADLER, JOHN TULLOCH BURRILL Flying Officer 40061 144sq RAF 29/09/1939 24 Royal Air Force UK Panel 1. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

Flying Officer John Tulloch Burrill Sadler, 144 Squadron RAF, was probably the second Australian killed in action. Flying Officer Sadler, who was serving in the RAF, was the pilot of a Handley Page Hampden bomber, serial L4121, part of a formation of five aircraft on a bombing mission on 29 September 1939. All five aircraft were intercepted and shot down between Heligoland and Wangerooge in Germany. Sadler, who has no known grave, is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial in England.

Date: 29-SEP-1939
Time: 1000
Type: Handley Page Hampden Mk.I
Operator: RAF 144 Sqn.
Registration: L4121
C/n / msn:
Fatalities: Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Nr. Heligoland - Germany
Phase: En route
Nature: Military
Departure airport: Hemswell
Destination airport: Hemswell
Narrative:
Airborne 0640 on mission Heligoland. Intercepted & shot down by Bf.109 flown by Oblt Gunther Specht of 1./ZG26 into sea between German islands of Heligoland & Wangerooge.

Crew:
F/O 40061 John Tulloch Burrill Sadler 24 RAF killed.
Son of Bertie Tulloch Sadler and Emily Sadler, of East Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.

Sgt 580200 R.L. Galloway RAF PoW5760.
Sgt 580680 William Henry Stephens 20 RAF killed.
AC1 523342 James White Cumming 22 RAF killed.

Sources:
Air Britain RAF Aircraft L1000 - N99999 & Lost Bombers - World War II Lost Bombers

 

1940


30th September

In Memory of
Pilot Officer JOHN DALLAS CROSSMAN

43283, 46 Sqdn., Royal Air Force
who died
on 30 September 1940
Son of George Edward and Gladys Allyne Crossman, of New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia.
Remembered with honour
CHALFONT ST. GILES CHURCHYARD

BoB Pilot
P/O J.D.Crossman an Australian flew with No 32 Squadron and No 46 Squadron was killed on the 30th of September 1940 at 13:30hrs. He was shot down in his Hurricane I (V6748) at Forest Row, Sussex.

During the Battle of Britain the Luftwaffe lost 2,698 airmen and 1,887 aircraft.
Almost half the 107 German fighter pilots to claim 100 or more kills (mainly in the east) were veterans of the Battle of Britain. Only eight of them joined their units after mid-1942.
(Figures from Stephen Bungay)

John Dallas Crossman

Service number: 43283

Rank: Pilot Officer

Unit: No 46 Squadron

Service: Royal Air Force

Conflict: 1939-1945

Date of death: 29 September 1940

Cause of death: Killed in action

Cemetery or memorial details: CHALFONT ST. GILES CHURCHYARD, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. Grave 13.

 

1940 In Memoriam - Those Air Force Pilots/Crews who died on this day in WW2
1940


1st October 1940

BOB Pilot
P/O C.C.Bennet 42097 was an Austrailian flying with No 248 Squadron in Blenheim's during the Battle of Britain. He and his crew (G.S.Clarke & G.B.Brash) were killed in action on the 1st of October 1940. They failed to return from a Recce/Sortie off the Norwegian coast flying in Blenheim IVf (R3626).


Clarence Charles Bennett

Service number: 42097

Rank: Pilot Officer

Unit: No 248 Squadron

Service: Royal Air Force

Conflict: 1939-1945

Date of death: 1 October 1940

Place of death: North Sea

Cause of death: Killed in action

Cemetery or memorial details: Runnymede Memorial, United Kingdom

Notes: Born in South Australia. Joined RAF direct from Australia in 1938.

In Memory of
Pilot Officer CLARENCE CHARLES BENNETT

42097, 248 Sqdn., Royal Air Force
who died age 23
on 01 October 1940
Son of Septimus Bord Bennett and Catherine Minnie Bennett, of Mile End, Adelaide, South Australia.
Remembered with honour
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

 

1939

2nd October 1939

In Memory of
Flight Lieutenant JOHN WILLIAM ALLSOP

39452, 10 Sqdn., Royal Air Force
who died age 25
on 02 October 1939
Son of Charles and Agnes Allsop; husband of Eva Constance Allsop, of Briar Hill, Victoria, Australia.
Remembered with honour
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

 

Crew of Whitley K9018

F/L J W Allsop
P/O A G Salmon
AC1 J R Bell
AC1 A F Hill
LAC F Ellison

"Route - Base - Linton - Standard Route - Berlin (Target) and return by same route.
This aircraft and crew did not return to base and have been reported as missing on Form 765A Serial No. 29 and Signal to Air Ministry A.127 dated 02/10/39. Last heard working w/t 05:05."
AIR27/141

Regards
Ross

 

01/10/40
248 Sqn
Blenheim IV
R3626
WR-J

Op: Recce, RAF Sumburgh, Took off 13:20 hrs

P/O C C Bennett
Sgt G S Clarke
Sgt G B Brash

Failed to return from a photo mission to the coast of Norway from Lister to Stadlandet. P/O Bennett, an Australian from Adelaide, and his crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

Regards
Ross

 

Thank you for the info Ross!

Cheers

Geoff

 

1943

3rd October 1943

A really bad day for the RAAF with 24 lads killed over Europe.

Particularly there were 11 lads from 10sq who are all remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.

ANDERSON, DAVID Flying Officer 408946 10sq RAF 3/10/1943 22 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 187. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

BUNNING, BRUCE ALAN Flying Officer 410303 10sq RAF 3/10/1943 25 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 187. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

COLDHAM-FUSSELL, HUMPHREY Sergeant 8710 10sq RAF 3/10/1943 30 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 195. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

GLEESON, JOHN BRYANT Flying Officer 410482 10sq RAF 3/10/1943 25 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 187. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

JOHNSON, PHILIP LESLIE Sergeant 27191 10sq RAF 3/10/1943 24 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 196. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

LEES, FREDERICK JOHN Flight Lieutenant 407901 10sq RAF 3/10/1943 29 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 187. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

LOCKREY, JOHN GALWAY Flight Sergeant 423203 10sq RAF 3/10/1943 20 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 193. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

McDONELL, BRIAN DUNCAN MICHAEL Flight Sergeant 426651 10sq RAF 3/10/1943 20 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 193. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

POWIS, WILLIAM HENRY Sergeant 419671 10sq RAF 3/10/1943 30 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 197. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

SPEIRS, JOHN RONALD Flight Sergeant 422010 10sq RAF 3/10/1943 21 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 193. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

STEHR, BRUCE EDWARD Sergeant 15805 10sq RAF 3/10/1943 30 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 197. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL UK Surrey

 

1943

4th October 1943

These lads were part part of the crew of 467 RAAF sq.


BROOK, ROY EDWARD Flight Sergeant 414460 467sq 4/10/1943 23 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 192. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

DALLWITZ, RAYMOND ERNEST Flight Sergeant 409669 467sq 4/10/1943 26 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Row G. Grave 9. FLUSHING (VLISSINGEN) NORTHERN CEMETERY

FRANCIS, JOHN EDMUND Flight Sergeant 409579 467sq 4/10/1943 20 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Panel 192. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

JACKSON, SYDNEY EDWARD Flight Sergeant 416679 467sq 4/10/1943 20 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Row G. Grave 28. FLUSHING (VLISSINGEN) NORTHERN CEMETERY

467 SQUADRON RAAF, WORLD WAR 2 FATALITIES
Date of Death: 4 October 1943
Source:
AWM 64 (1/426) AWM 237 (63)
NAA : A705, 166/38/297
W R Chorley : RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War : Page 348, Volume 1943.
Aircraft Type:Lancaster
Serial number:JA 906
Radio call sign:PO – K
Unit:467 Sqn RAAF

Summary:
Lancaster JA906 took off from RAF Bottesford at 1830 hours on the night of 3/4th October 1943 to bomb Kassel, Germany. Bomb load 1 x 4000lb bomb, 24 x 30lb, 1344 x 4lb incendiaries. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. Fourteen aircraft from the Squadron took part in the raid and one of these JA906 failed to return.
Crew:
RAAF 414365 PO Smith, G J Captain (Pilot)
RAAF 409669 Flt Sgt R E Dallwitz, (Navigator)
RAAF 409579 Flt Sgt J E Francis, (Bomb Aimer)
RAAF 414460 Flt Sgt R E Brook, (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
RAF Sgt A T McB Proudfoot, (Flight Engineer)
RAAF 421483 Flt Sgt R G Wellington, (Mid Upper Gunner)
RAAF 416679 Flt Sgt S E Jackson, (Rear Gunner)
Post war it was established that the aircraft crashed while taking evasive action from flak off the Dutch coast and the aircraft crashed into the sea 4kms north of Vlissengen.
PO Smith, Sgt Proudfoot and Flt Sgt Wellington survived the crash and became POW’s.
The remaining four crew members were killed. Flt Sgt Dallwitz and Flt Sgt Jackson are buried In the Vlissengen Cemetery, Flushing, Holland, and Flt Sgt Francis and Flt Sgt Brook are listed a missing and their names are commemorated on the Memorial to the Missing, Runnymede, Surrey, UK.
In a statement PO Smith reported “Aircraft hotly engaged by A/A fire off the Frisian Islands night 3/4th October 1943. While taking avoiding action at low height the aircraft went into the sea. Dallwitz/Francis/Brook/Jackson not seen after hit water. Presumed drowned.”
In his statement Flt Sgt Wellington reported “Loss of aircraft caused firstly by flak. Being attacked constantly by fighters we flew at low level. We hit the sea. I have no knowledge of anything else as I was knocked unconscious. To my belief four members of
the crew were trapped when we struck the water – Dallwitz/Francis/Brook/Jackson. I was released by the Russians on 22 April 1945.”

 

Hi Geoff,

The notation of No.10 Sqn RAF is incorrect. They were all serving with No.10 Squadron RAAF which was training in the UK at the start of the war and was allowed to remain by the Aussie goverment to bolster the meagre capability of RAF Coastal Command.

Sunderland DP179 coded M for Mother took off from RAF Mount Batten on 02/10/43 at 23:15 hrs tasked with a Percussion L-2 patrol. Developed engine trouble at 07:47 hrs in position 48 05N 09 48W and was returning to base when they ditched 20 miles south of the Scilly Isles.

Regards
Ross

 

1940 In Memoriam - Those Air Force Pilots/Crews who died on this day in WW2
1940

5th October 1940

I assume this lad was part of a Hudson crew.


McINTOSH , JOHN Pilot Officer 43289 233sq 5/10/1940 Unknown RAF UK Panel 9. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Commemorative Roll - John McIntosh

John McIntosh

Service number: 43289
Rank: Pilot Officer
Unit: No 233 Squadron
Service: Royal Air Force
Conflict: 1939-1945
Date of death: 4 October 1940
Cause of death: Killed in action
Cemetery or memorial details: Runnymede Memorial, United Kingdom
Notes: For further information refer to publication R940.544941 S886a held in the Research Centre's reference collection.

 

1942 In Memoriam - Those Air Force Pilots/Crews who died on this day in WW2
1942

6th October 1942

DELARUE, JACK EDMON Flying Officer 402322 206sq 6/10/1942 26 Royal Australian Air Force Australian West Wall Border. NUNTON OLD CHURCHYARD UK Inverness-Shire

GUPPY, JOHN FLOWE Sergeant 406452 4 MED RU 6/10/1942 20 Royal Australian Air Force Australian West Wall Border. NUNTON OLD CHURCHYARD UK Inverness-Shire

TAPLIN, JOHN BLATC Flight Sergeant 407607 206sq 6/10/1942 27 Royal Australian Air Force Australian West Wall Border. NUNTON OLD CHURCHYARD UK Inverness-Shire