Service Number:--- 414465
Enlisted in RAAF:--- 11 October 1941, Traveston, Queensland
Last Rank:--- Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:--- No. 207 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Spilsby
Born:--- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19 October 1911
Home Town:--- North Tamborine, Scenic Rim, Queensland
Civilian employment:--- Timber worker
Died:--- Killed in Action, flying battle, Berlin, Germany, 29 January 1944, aged 32 years.
Burial:--- Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery.
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At 0003 hours on the morning of 29th January 1944, Lancaster LM366 took off from Spilsby detailed to bomb Berlin. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. It was believed that the aircraft crashed at Reichenwalde, 4kms east north east of Storkow. Seven of the crew members were killed and one was a Prisoner of War. The remains of three members were recovered and the other five are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Crew Members of Lancaster LM366.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Flight Sergeant:--- Ivor Frederick Chalmers (414465) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant:--- L A Croston (1208946) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air) PoW
Sergeant:--- Robert Hughes (1451198) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Flying Officer:--- Ivor Mitchell (134693) (RAFVR) (First Navigator)
Sergeant:--- John Patrick Rothera (1578477) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flight Lieutenant:--- John Gordon Taylor (135702) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant:--- Donald Arthur Turner (1394543) (RAFVR) (Second Navigator)
Sergeant:--- Thomas Fowler Westmoreland (2200207) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)

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Ivor Fredrick Chalmers enlisted at Traveston, near Gympie, Queensland.
He was the son of Alexander and Emily Chalmers of Samford QLD and the eldest of the children in the family.Prior to enlistment he was a timber worker and was serving as rear-gunner with the RAF on Lancaster LM366 EM-H when it was brought down in Germany. Initially interred at Buck, he is now buried in the World War Two War Graves Commission cemetery in Berlin.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Family~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Father:---Alexander Chalmers (Jr). Born :-10th October 1878,Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Died:- 10th November 1941, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
Mother:---Emily Mary Chalmers (nee Mapp). Born:- 20th August 1887,Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Died:- 16th April 1964, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
1st Son:---Ivor Frederick Chalmers. Born:- 19th October 1911, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Died:- 29th January 1944, Germany.
2nd Son:--- Donald Alexander Chalmers. Born:-18th July 1913, Miles, Queensland, Australia. Died:-28 April 2003, Gympie, Queensland, Australia.
3rd Son:---William Roy Chalmers. Born:-19th March 1915, Rappville, New South Wales, Australia. Died:- 3rd February 2002, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
4th Son:---Harold Benjamin Chalmers. Born:- 7th March 1917, Casino, New South Wales, Australia. Died:- 13th December2003, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
5th Son:---John Charles Chalmers. Born:- 11th December 1919,Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Died:- 22nd July 2007, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
6th Son:---Thomas Norman Chalmers. Born:- 17th October 1921, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Died:- 21st August 2007, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia.
Daughter:---Muriel Joyce Chalmers. Born:- 14th September 1924, Gympie, Queensland, Australia. Died:-29th August 2014, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland, Australia. Married James Alec Kidd, 7th April 1945, North Tamborine, Queensland.

His family consisted of Ivor, Don (Army), Roy (RAAF), John (Army - a Desert Rat at Tobruk), Ben (RAAF), Thomas (RAAF) and Joyce.