Info: RAF Australian? Allied Unit, Air Marshal Sir Peter Roy M. Drummond,KCB,DSO and Bar,OBE,MC,MiD

Info: RAF Australian? Allied Unit,[FONT=&quot] AIR MARSHAL SIR PETER ROY MAXWELL DRUMMOND,[/FONT][FONT=&quot] KCB, DSO and Bar, OBE, MC, MID[/FONT]

I have quite a deal of information on this Australian in the RAF but would welcome any additions or corrections.



Any further information would be appreciated.

Need assistance on Who/Where/What/How for this man who is on the Australian Commemorative Roll which is for those "Australians" who died in other Allied Services. If proved not to be "Australian" their names will not be removed from the Commemorative Roll however their details will be updated accordingly.

I have researched the Air Force members but there are many more Land and Sea deaths in a myriad of different forces.

There is not a lot of information on these people that can be accessed easily and I ask your assistance to fill in at least some of the gaps.

Hopefully some relatives may see this thread and add more.

I will make a different thread for each along the way as they may tend to get lost if clumped together.

AIR MARSHAL SIR PETER ROY MAXWELL DRUMMOND,
KCB, DSO and Bar, OBE, MC, MID


(Born in Australia and enlisted/served in the Royal Air Force – missing on 27/3/1945)


REFERENCES :
(1) AWM 76(B150) : Letter from Lady Drummond of 21 May 1951.
“the Late Air Marshal Sir Peter Roy Maxwell Drummond,
Regular Air Force Officer, Royal Air Force.
Born Perth, W.Aust on 2nd June 1894.
Senior Air Staff Officer, HQ Middle East 1937-1941;
Deputy Air Officer Commanding, Middle East 1941-1943:
Air Member for Training and Member of Air Council, 1943-1945.
Killed in aircraft accident 27th March 1945.”


(2) AWM Commemorative Roll : Name recorded.
(3) RAF Air Force List January 1945 ; Pages 23(a), 140(a) and Page 490.
AWM Call No. : RC 358 41120 941 G 786 (a)
(4) Commonwealth War Graves : Name recorded on Runnymede Memorial, Panel
264.
Son of John Maxwell Drummond and Caroline Ann Drummond.
Husband of Lady Drummond of Kensington, London.
Age 50 at Date of Death.


(5) Extract from RAAF Casualty File : NAA : A705, 166/37/1002 refers
Liberator AL 504 of 231 Sqn RAF. Departed RAF Station Northolt, UK at 2300Z
hours on 26 March 1945 for Ottawa, Canada, via Lagens, Azores, on special flight
carrying VIP’s. ETA Lagens 0810Z hours on 27th March.
Last contact with AL 504 by Prestwick was at 0716Z hours on 27 March.


The aircraft was reported overdue at Lagens and an air/sea search instituted.
Dinghies, wreckage and oil patch seen in position 40.30N, 20.17W*, but no trace of
crew or passengers. (*in the Atlantic Ocean approx 150/200 miles north east of the
Azores.)


Crew :

RAF Wg Cdr Biddell, W H OBE, DFC, Captain (Pilot)
RAF FO Brodie, A B (Co-Pilot)
RCAF Flt Lt Buchanan, D (Co-Navigator)
RAAF 408707 Flt Lt Shea, K G (Co-Navigator)
RCAF WO Spence, D J (Flight Engineer)
Mr. Williams, F W (UK Civilian Radio Officer)
Mr Bannister, V I C (UK Civilian Flight Clerk)
Plus Seven Passengers


Commander Brabner, DSO, DSC, MP
Air Marshal Sir P Drummond, KCB, DSO,CBE,MC.
Sir John Abraham.
Mr Jones, Mr Robinson, Mr Twentyman, and Sqn Ldr Plumm.
It was later recorded that the missing crew and passengers had lost their lives at sea.
(A.Storr, Volunteer AWM Published & Digitised Records. 2nd August 2004)

In Memory of
Air Marshal Sir PETER ROY MAXWELL DRUMMOND
K C B, D S O and Bar, O B E, M C, Twice Mentioned in Despatches

Royal Air Force
who died age 50
on 27 March 1945
Son of John Maxwell Drummond and Caroline Ann Drummond; husband of Lady Isabel Drummond, of Kensington, London. Deputy Air Officer, Commanding-in-Chief, Royal Air Force, Middle East, 1941-43.
Remembered with honour
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL