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F/Sgt Lionel Warwick Weeden

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F/Sgt Lionel Warwick Weeden Veteran

Birth
Glenelg South, Holdfast Bay City, South Australia, Australia
Death
22 May 1944 (aged 28)
Randerath, Landkreis Heinsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Burial
Rheinberg, Kreis Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Add to Map
Plot
5. B. 5.
Memorial ID
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Fligh Sergeant Royal Australian air Force 417916 (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Posting on Death: 463 Squadron, Waddington Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster ME 560; Place - Horst, Germany; Date - 22 May 1944.
Crashed at Randerath 4 Miles Northeast of Geilenkirchen during a Raid on Duisburg.
The crew of Lancaster ME 560 were;
ARCHAY Kenneth Edgar – (Flying Officer) - 426941 RAAF (Pilot)
WEEDEN Lionel W – (Flight Sergeant) – 417916 (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
MATTINGLEY Albert F – (Flying Officer) – 419806 (Air Gunner)
JASPER, James E – (Flight Sergeant) – 426604 (Bomb Aimer)
MAYNE, Albert F – (Warrant Officer) – 408913 (Navigator)
RICE Frank N – (Sergeant) – 1607123 RAF (Flt Engineer)
ROSS, Edward H – (Flying Officer) - 429351 RAAF (Air Gunner)
Description of Group Photo
Second row: E J Rowlands; 417920 Mervyn Thomas Whittenbury (later lost on operations on 13 June 1944 whilst serving with No. 460 Squadron, RAAF); C Symonds; 427484 Cavan Beadon Robinson (later lost on operations on 21 February 1945 whilst serving with No. 576 Squadron, RAF); R C Scott; L D Zilm; 417916 Lionel Warwick Weeden (later lost on operations on 22 April 1944 whilst serving with No. 463 Squadron, RAAF) ; C L Roberts; H J White; 417903 John Edwin Thomas (later lost on operations on 28 December 1943 whilst serving with No. 20 Operational Training Unit, RAF).
Remembrance & Family
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Adelaide SA, also his name is located at panel 109 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Henry Warwick Weeden and Hannah Weeden; husband of Ruby Amy Weeden, of West Mitcham, South Australia.
Fligh Sergeant Royal Australian air Force 417916 (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Posting on Death: 463 Squadron, Waddington Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster ME 560; Place - Horst, Germany; Date - 22 May 1944.
Crashed at Randerath 4 Miles Northeast of Geilenkirchen during a Raid on Duisburg.
The crew of Lancaster ME 560 were;
ARCHAY Kenneth Edgar – (Flying Officer) - 426941 RAAF (Pilot)
WEEDEN Lionel W – (Flight Sergeant) – 417916 (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
MATTINGLEY Albert F – (Flying Officer) – 419806 (Air Gunner)
JASPER, James E – (Flight Sergeant) – 426604 (Bomb Aimer)
MAYNE, Albert F – (Warrant Officer) – 408913 (Navigator)
RICE Frank N – (Sergeant) – 1607123 RAF (Flt Engineer)
ROSS, Edward H – (Flying Officer) - 429351 RAAF (Air Gunner)
Description of Group Photo
Second row: E J Rowlands; 417920 Mervyn Thomas Whittenbury (later lost on operations on 13 June 1944 whilst serving with No. 460 Squadron, RAAF); C Symonds; 427484 Cavan Beadon Robinson (later lost on operations on 21 February 1945 whilst serving with No. 576 Squadron, RAF); R C Scott; L D Zilm; 417916 Lionel Warwick Weeden (later lost on operations on 22 April 1944 whilst serving with No. 463 Squadron, RAAF) ; C L Roberts; H J White; 417903 John Edwin Thomas (later lost on operations on 28 December 1943 whilst serving with No. 20 Operational Training Unit, RAF).
Remembrance & Family
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Adelaide SA, also his name is located at panel 109 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Henry Warwick Weeden and Hannah Weeden; husband of Ruby Amy Weeden, of West Mitcham, South Australia.

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