Parents:--- Son of John Percival Victor Trout & Hilda Winfield married 12th October 1910 in Adelaide.
Wife:--- Linda Wallis married 25 March 1937 in Adelaide, South Australia
Brother:--- Flying Officer Colin Joseph Trout (437888) who died as a result of complications from Appendicectomy Abscess in Heidelberg Military Hospital, Melbourne, 5th December 1944.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Cover Portrait Description ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Colourised, Group portrait of five members of a Wellington Crew of 460 Squadron RAAF who all died whilst on operations over Germany on 21 January 1944. Identified, left to right, back row: 421791 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) William Robert Chadwick, of Yerrinbool, NSW, who enlisted on 28 March 1942; 421917 Flt Sgt Claude Charles Liersch, of Wagga Wagga, NSW, who enlisted on 24 April 1942. Front row: 416904 Flt Sgt Malcolm Ralph Trout, of Adelaide, SA, who enlisted on 11 October 1941; 416830 Pilot Officer (PO) Robert Norman Allan, of Adelaide, SA, who enlisted on 11 October 1941, and 403288 PO Edward George Thomas, of Hurstville, NSW, who enlisted on 8 November 1941.
~~~Flight Sergeant Malcolm RalphTROUT, Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF, World War Two.~~~~~
RAAF Service Number:--- 416904
Religion:--- Church of England
Home Town:--- Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, South Australia
Civil employment:--- Upholsterer
Martial status:--- Married
Next of kin:--- Wife, Mrs Lynda Trout, 64 Alison St, St Leonards, South Australia.
Enlisted:--- 6th June 1941 in Warradale, South Australia.
Final Rank:-- Flight Sergeant
Final Unit / Posting:--- No. 460 Squadron (RAAF) Binbrook, Yorkshire.
Fate:--- Died during air operations in No. 460 Squadron Lancaster aircraft JB702, over Germany, 21st January 1944.
Burial:---Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery, Charlottenburg, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.
Memorials:--- Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Glenelg and District WW1 & WW2 Honour Board, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
Remembered:--- Panel 108, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra .
Remembered:--- World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
Details of final mission:--- Lancaster JB702 took off from RAF Binbrook at 1945 hours on 21 January 1944 to bomb Magdeburg, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. Twenty one aircraft from the squadron took part in the raid. Post war it was established that the aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire at 2200 hours on 21 January 1944 over the village of Raines and set on fire. Wreckage was scattered over a wide area. All the crew members were killed in the crash.
~~~~~The crew members of JB702 who perished on this mission are listed below.~~~~~~~
Pilot Officer Robert Norman Allan (416830) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant William Robert Chadwick (421791) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Claude Charles Liersch (421917) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant William Arthur McCauley (1804429) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Charles William Reed (426685) (Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Edward George Thomas (403288) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Malcolm Ralph Trout (416904) (Bomb Aimer)
Obituary:---Mrs. M. R. Trout, of St. Leonards, Glenelg, has been notified that her husband, Flt-Sgt. Max Trout, 30, has been posted missing as the result of an air raid over Magdeburg, Germany, on the night of January 21-22. He was a member of a Lancaster squadron. Before enlisting he was employed at Cooke's, upholsterers.