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Flying Officer Edward Charles Truscott

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Flying Officer Edward Charles Truscott Veteran

Birth
Toora, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia
Death
2 Jan 1944 (aged 29)
Muckendorf, Landkreis Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
Burial
Charlottenburg, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany Add to Map
Plot
5. F. 35.
Memorial ID
View Source
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Flying Officer Royal Australian Air Force 409619 (Navigator)
Posting on Death: 460 Squadron, Binbrook, Lincolnshire
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster JB606; Place - Mueckendorf, Germany; Date - 2 January 1944. (Target Berlin)
Crashed at Muckendorf 2 Miles North of Baruth During a Raid on Berlin
The crew members of JB606 were:
Flying Officer Edward Charles Truscott (409619) (Navigator)
Flying Officer Aubrey Robinson (420402) (Bomb Aimer)
Pilot Officer Henry Edward Bennett (14538) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Lambert Albert Chester (420146) # (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Sergeant William Fleming (1294322) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Ronald Herbert Lawn (427652) # (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Reginald William Rowley # (409747) (Pilot)
Description of group photo;
Front row from left to right: 409634 Ian James Wilkinson (later Flt Lt); 409619 Edward Charles Truscott (later FO and died on flying operations over Germany on 2 January 1945); 409612 Laurence Richard Ryan (later Flt Lt); 409604 Sydney Albert Sing (later FO); 409616 George Henry Brown Treeby (later Flt Lt); 409601 Keith George Scarrott (later FO); 409611 David Stanley Symonds (later Flt Lt and awarded DFC); 39392 Corporal William Arthur Osborne Fox (later WO 39392); 409628 John Alfred Waddell (later FO); 409637 Frank Windmill (later WO); 409625 James Maxwell Vale (later FO); 409599 George Andrew Terence Ryan (later PO); 409617 Clifford John Trotman (later PO and died on flying operations over Germany on 29 January 1944); and 409606 Percival Lee Speakman (later FO).
Remembrance
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Welshpool Vic, also his name is located at panel 108 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Family
Son of Thomas William and Catherine Francis Truscott j husband of Joyce Truscott, of Burwood, Victoria, Australia.
Father Thomas William Truscott (1881-1951)
Mother Catherine Frances (Coonie) Lousada (1889-1964)
Spouse Joyce Horsfall
Brother James Truscott KIA New Guinea.
View Memorial site here

Flying Officer Royal Australian Air Force 409619 (Navigator)
Posting on Death: 460 Squadron, Binbrook, Lincolnshire
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster JB606; Place - Mueckendorf, Germany; Date - 2 January 1944. (Target Berlin)
Crashed at Muckendorf 2 Miles North of Baruth During a Raid on Berlin
The crew members of JB606 were:
Flying Officer Edward Charles Truscott (409619) (Navigator)
Flying Officer Aubrey Robinson (420402) (Bomb Aimer)
Pilot Officer Henry Edward Bennett (14538) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Lambert Albert Chester (420146) # (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Sergeant William Fleming (1294322) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Ronald Herbert Lawn (427652) # (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Reginald William Rowley # (409747) (Pilot)
Description of group photo;
Front row from left to right: 409634 Ian James Wilkinson (later Flt Lt); 409619 Edward Charles Truscott (later FO and died on flying operations over Germany on 2 January 1945); 409612 Laurence Richard Ryan (later Flt Lt); 409604 Sydney Albert Sing (later FO); 409616 George Henry Brown Treeby (later Flt Lt); 409601 Keith George Scarrott (later FO); 409611 David Stanley Symonds (later Flt Lt and awarded DFC); 39392 Corporal William Arthur Osborne Fox (later WO 39392); 409628 John Alfred Waddell (later FO); 409637 Frank Windmill (later WO); 409625 James Maxwell Vale (later FO); 409599 George Andrew Terence Ryan (later PO); 409617 Clifford John Trotman (later PO and died on flying operations over Germany on 29 January 1944); and 409606 Percival Lee Speakman (later FO).
Remembrance
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Welshpool Vic, also his name is located at panel 108 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Family
Son of Thomas William and Catherine Francis Truscott j husband of Joyce Truscott, of Burwood, Victoria, Australia.
Father Thomas William Truscott (1881-1951)
Mother Catherine Frances (Coonie) Lousada (1889-1964)
Spouse Joyce Horsfall
Brother James Truscott KIA New Guinea.

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