~~~~~~Military Service, Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF, World War Two~~~~~~~~~~~
Service Number:--- 405020
Attested into RAAF:--- 5th January 1941in Brisbane, Queensland.
Last Rank: ---Sergeant
Last Unit:---No. 460 Squadron, RAF Breighton, Yorkshire
Born:--- Cloncurry Queensland, Australia, 16th December 1915.
Home Town:--- Wooloowin, Brisbane, Queensland
Civilian Employment:--- Shire Clerk
Next of kin:--- Mother, Mrs Elizabeth Augusta Gaiter, Townsville, Queensland
Fate:--- Died in air operations, Essen Germany, 3rd June 1942, aged 26 years.
Burial:---Not yet known/Unrecovered
Memorials:--- "The Monument" Cloncurry
Parents:--- James Gaiter, and of Elizabeth Augusta Gaiter, of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Remembered:--- Panel 112, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Details:---Wellington Z1249 took off from RAF Breighton at 2230 hours on 2 June 1942 to attack Essen, Germany. The bomb load was 720 x 4 lb (pound) (2 kg) incendiaries. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. It was established post war that the aircraft was shot down at 0140 hours on 3 June 1942 at Deulken near the town of Muenchen Gladbach, about 20 miles west of Dusseldorf. The aircraft exploded and wreckage was scattered over a wide area. All the crew members were killed instantly. German documents revealed that they removed the remains of the crew for burial, but a post war search for their graves was unsuccessful.
The crew members of Z1249 were:
Flight Sergeant Hugh Rowell Brodie (400524) (Observer)
Sergeant James Albert Gaiter (405020) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Solomon Levitus (402910) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Robert George Dunlop Read (R/69516) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Thomas Gordon Prentis Townsend (1051659) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
No. 460 Squadron lost Wellington Z1394 (Flying Officer John Walter Keene (402742) (Pilot)) on 3 June 1942.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran's Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/115/104
Service Number:--- 405020
Attested into RAAF:--- 5th January 1941in Brisbane, Queensland.
Last Rank: ---Sergeant
Last Unit:---No. 460 Squadron, RAF Breighton, Yorkshire
Born:--- Cloncurry Queensland, Australia, 16th December 1915.
Home Town:--- Wooloowin, Brisbane, Queensland
Civilian Employment:--- Shire Clerk
Next of kin:--- Mother, Mrs Elizabeth Augusta Gaiter, Townsville, Queensland
Fate:--- Died in air operations, Essen Germany, 3rd June 1942, aged 26 years.
Burial:---Not yet known/Unrecovered
Memorials:--- "The Monument" Cloncurry
Parents:--- James Gaiter, and of Elizabeth Augusta Gaiter, of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Remembered:--- Panel 112, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Details:---Wellington Z1249 took off from RAF Breighton at 2230 hours on 2 June 1942 to attack Essen, Germany. The bomb load was 720 x 4 lb (pound) (2 kg) incendiaries. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. It was established post war that the aircraft was shot down at 0140 hours on 3 June 1942 at Deulken near the town of Muenchen Gladbach, about 20 miles west of Dusseldorf. The aircraft exploded and wreckage was scattered over a wide area. All the crew members were killed instantly. German documents revealed that they removed the remains of the crew for burial, but a post war search for their graves was unsuccessful.
The crew members of Z1249 were:
Flight Sergeant Hugh Rowell Brodie (400524) (Observer)
Sergeant James Albert Gaiter (405020) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Solomon Levitus (402910) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Robert George Dunlop Read (R/69516) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Thomas Gordon Prentis Townsend (1051659) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
No. 460 Squadron lost Wellington Z1394 (Flying Officer John Walter Keene (402742) (Pilot)) on 3 June 1942.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran's Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/115/104
~~~~~~Military Service, Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF, World War Two~~~~~~~~~~~
Service Number:--- 405020
Attested into RAAF:--- 5th January 1941in Brisbane, Queensland.
Last Rank: ---Sergeant
Last Unit:---No. 460 Squadron, RAF Breighton, Yorkshire
Born:--- Cloncurry Queensland, Australia, 16th December 1915.
Home Town:--- Wooloowin, Brisbane, Queensland
Civilian Employment:--- Shire Clerk
Next of kin:--- Mother, Mrs Elizabeth Augusta Gaiter, Townsville, Queensland
Fate:--- Died in air operations, Essen Germany, 3rd June 1942, aged 26 years.
Burial:---Not yet known/Unrecovered
Memorials:--- "The Monument" Cloncurry
Parents:--- James Gaiter, and of Elizabeth Augusta Gaiter, of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Remembered:--- Panel 112, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Details:---Wellington Z1249 took off from RAF Breighton at 2230 hours on 2 June 1942 to attack Essen, Germany. The bomb load was 720 x 4 lb (pound) (2 kg) incendiaries. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. It was established post war that the aircraft was shot down at 0140 hours on 3 June 1942 at Deulken near the town of Muenchen Gladbach, about 20 miles west of Dusseldorf. The aircraft exploded and wreckage was scattered over a wide area. All the crew members were killed instantly. German documents revealed that they removed the remains of the crew for burial, but a post war search for their graves was unsuccessful.
The crew members of Z1249 were:
Flight Sergeant Hugh Rowell Brodie (400524) (Observer)
Sergeant James Albert Gaiter (405020) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Solomon Levitus (402910) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Robert George Dunlop Read (R/69516) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Thomas Gordon Prentis Townsend (1051659) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
No. 460 Squadron lost Wellington Z1394 (Flying Officer John Walter Keene (402742) (Pilot)) on 3 June 1942.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran's Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/115/104
Service Number:--- 405020
Attested into RAAF:--- 5th January 1941in Brisbane, Queensland.
Last Rank: ---Sergeant
Last Unit:---No. 460 Squadron, RAF Breighton, Yorkshire
Born:--- Cloncurry Queensland, Australia, 16th December 1915.
Home Town:--- Wooloowin, Brisbane, Queensland
Civilian Employment:--- Shire Clerk
Next of kin:--- Mother, Mrs Elizabeth Augusta Gaiter, Townsville, Queensland
Fate:--- Died in air operations, Essen Germany, 3rd June 1942, aged 26 years.
Burial:---Not yet known/Unrecovered
Memorials:--- "The Monument" Cloncurry
Parents:--- James Gaiter, and of Elizabeth Augusta Gaiter, of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Remembered:--- Panel 112, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Details:---Wellington Z1249 took off from RAF Breighton at 2230 hours on 2 June 1942 to attack Essen, Germany. The bomb load was 720 x 4 lb (pound) (2 kg) incendiaries. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. It was established post war that the aircraft was shot down at 0140 hours on 3 June 1942 at Deulken near the town of Muenchen Gladbach, about 20 miles west of Dusseldorf. The aircraft exploded and wreckage was scattered over a wide area. All the crew members were killed instantly. German documents revealed that they removed the remains of the crew for burial, but a post war search for their graves was unsuccessful.
The crew members of Z1249 were:
Flight Sergeant Hugh Rowell Brodie (400524) (Observer)
Sergeant James Albert Gaiter (405020) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Solomon Levitus (402910) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Robert George Dunlop Read (R/69516) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Thomas Gordon Prentis Townsend (1051659) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
No. 460 Squadron lost Wellington Z1394 (Flying Officer John Walter Keene (402742) (Pilot)) on 3 June 1942.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran's Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/115/104
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