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03-01-2008, 02:09 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | RAF deaths in Australia I have a query on two RAF graves I came across in the small war cemetery in Benalla Victoria a couple of days ago. Both were 516sq RAF. Any assistance would be appreciated. Name: SILLITO, EDWARD BRIAN Initials: E B Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Flight Lieutenant (Nav.) Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 516 Sqdn. Age: 24 Date of Death: 19/06/1945 Service No: 129592 Awards: D F C Additional information: Son of Roland and Annie Sillito, of Ashley Heath, Staffordshire. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot C. Row B. Grave 3. Cemetery: BENALLA WAR CEMETERY Name: BELL, ERNEST GEORGE Initials: E G Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Flying Officer Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Unit Text: 516 Sqdn. Age: 25 Date of Death: 19/06/1945 Service No: 54293 Additional information: Son of Augustus Robert and Florence May Bell; husband of Joyce Mary Bell, of Brewood, Staffordshire, England. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot C. Row B. Grave 1. Cemetery: BENALLA WAR CEMETERY Attachment 1165 Attachment 1166 Attachment 1167 Benalla War Cemetery1.jpg
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 03-01-2008 at 02:29 PM.. |
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03-01-2008, 03:07 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Mosquito NS735. On 19/6/45 F/O E Bell and Flt Lt E Sillito DFC. Crashed at Benalla, Victoria, returning to Narrowmine from Laverton and both were killed. Remians of aircraft believed transfered to RAAF. Sillito's casualty file: http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imag...78363&I=1&SE=1
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03-01-2008, 03:17 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Just an additional note. Both Bell and Sillito were 618 Squadron (the Mosquito unit were meant to use the bouncing bomb), and so the squadron given is incorrect. It maybe that when the CWGC list was being compiled the squadron was still seen as secret. 516 Squadron had been disbanded a year earlier and had never flown Mosquitos anyway. The aircraft was one of the non-bouncing bomb Mosquitos that had been shipped to Australia to act as a recon craft for the squadron. A number of sites seemt o give the date and crew NS735 as 2nd May 1945 and the crew being F/Lt Rochford and LAC Doybell. In fact this aircraft was HR576.
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03-01-2008, 04:49 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Quote:
Thanks for the info. Again I didn't think to look in NAA files for the RAF info.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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03-01-2008, 04:57 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Always worth looking for any RAF causalties killed on Australian soil. I've also had a look at the Board of Inquiry report on the crash but no reason could be found, except the possibility of poor visibility as the cloud level was down to 500 feet.
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04-01-2008, 12:04 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Very nice work, Kyt.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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04-01-2008, 12:13 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | One report seemed to say that the resultant crash was a vertical dive as the wreckage was 6ft into the ground.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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04-01-2008, 12:15 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Disorientated in cloud perhaps?
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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19-05-2008, 09:59 PM
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You're Top Poster: #13  | Hi Spidge, Do you need any RAAF casualties from Luton, Hertfordshire? I have just found a folder i did sometime ago in my pics folder which does have some Aussie RAAF casualties but not sure if you have them. Happy to send them to you if you want them. Mike (Sniper) 
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19-05-2008, 11:20 PM
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My figures only give me one in Hertfordshire at Watford Cemetery which I do not have. As far as Luton is concerned, my two "Luton" requirements are in Bedfordshire. If you have some in Hertfordshire it would be great. They may be 1946 or 47 which I do not have on my list. Cheers Geoff
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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