Service No: 416369
Born: Gawler SA, 9 March 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 24 May 1941
Unit: No. 32 Squadron, Horn Island QLD
Died: Air Operations (No. 32 Squadron Hudson aircraft A16-201), New Guinea, 22 July 1942, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Harold Llewellyn Sheard and Rose Hilda Sheard, of Port Elliott, South Australia
Roll of Honour: Nuriootpa SA
Remembered: Panel 103, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
On 22 July 1942, Hudson A16-201 went missing on operations in the Buna Bay vicinity. The crew members of A16-201 were:
Pilot Officer Warren Frank Cowan (407614) (Pilot)
Sergeant Russell Bradburn Polack (411183) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Laurie Edwin Sheard (416369) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer David Reid Taylor (408206) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Crew of Hudson A16-201
It is believed that Warren Cowan and his crew including Lauri Sheard, were originally interred at Lae War Cemetery. Their remains were repatriated there by USAF investigators who had recovered remains from a US C-47 transport, when they were told by villages of another wreck in the area. It was later identified as Cowan's Hudson.
Pilot Officer Warren Cowan (/explore/people/512084), 31 years old from Angaston SA, was killed in action on 22 July 1942, along with his crew;
Navigator, Pilot Officer David Taylor (/explore/people/649251), 33, from Hobart Tasmania and
Gunners Sergeant Russell Polack (/explore/people/643628), 24 of Summer Hill NSW, and Sergeant Lauri Sheard, 20, of Nuriootpa, SA.
Born: Gawler SA, 9 March 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 24 May 1941
Unit: No. 32 Squadron, Horn Island QLD
Died: Air Operations (No. 32 Squadron Hudson aircraft A16-201), New Guinea, 22 July 1942, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Harold Llewellyn Sheard and Rose Hilda Sheard, of Port Elliott, South Australia
Roll of Honour: Nuriootpa SA
Remembered: Panel 103, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
On 22 July 1942, Hudson A16-201 went missing on operations in the Buna Bay vicinity. The crew members of A16-201 were:
Pilot Officer Warren Frank Cowan (407614) (Pilot)
Sergeant Russell Bradburn Polack (411183) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Laurie Edwin Sheard (416369) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer David Reid Taylor (408206) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Crew of Hudson A16-201
It is believed that Warren Cowan and his crew including Lauri Sheard, were originally interred at Lae War Cemetery. Their remains were repatriated there by USAF investigators who had recovered remains from a US C-47 transport, when they were told by villages of another wreck in the area. It was later identified as Cowan's Hudson.
Pilot Officer Warren Cowan (/explore/people/512084), 31 years old from Angaston SA, was killed in action on 22 July 1942, along with his crew;
Navigator, Pilot Officer David Taylor (/explore/people/649251), 33, from Hobart Tasmania and
Gunners Sergeant Russell Polack (/explore/people/643628), 24 of Summer Hill NSW, and Sergeant Lauri Sheard, 20, of Nuriootpa, SA.
Service No: 416369
Born: Gawler SA, 9 March 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 24 May 1941
Unit: No. 32 Squadron, Horn Island QLD
Died: Air Operations (No. 32 Squadron Hudson aircraft A16-201), New Guinea, 22 July 1942, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Harold Llewellyn Sheard and Rose Hilda Sheard, of Port Elliott, South Australia
Roll of Honour: Nuriootpa SA
Remembered: Panel 103, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
On 22 July 1942, Hudson A16-201 went missing on operations in the Buna Bay vicinity. The crew members of A16-201 were:
Pilot Officer Warren Frank Cowan (407614) (Pilot)
Sergeant Russell Bradburn Polack (411183) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Laurie Edwin Sheard (416369) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer David Reid Taylor (408206) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Crew of Hudson A16-201
It is believed that Warren Cowan and his crew including Lauri Sheard, were originally interred at Lae War Cemetery. Their remains were repatriated there by USAF investigators who had recovered remains from a US C-47 transport, when they were told by villages of another wreck in the area. It was later identified as Cowan's Hudson.
Pilot Officer Warren Cowan (/explore/people/512084), 31 years old from Angaston SA, was killed in action on 22 July 1942, along with his crew;
Navigator, Pilot Officer David Taylor (/explore/people/649251), 33, from Hobart Tasmania and
Gunners Sergeant Russell Polack (/explore/people/643628), 24 of Summer Hill NSW, and Sergeant Lauri Sheard, 20, of Nuriootpa, SA.
Born: Gawler SA, 9 March 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 24 May 1941
Unit: No. 32 Squadron, Horn Island QLD
Died: Air Operations (No. 32 Squadron Hudson aircraft A16-201), New Guinea, 22 July 1942, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Harold Llewellyn Sheard and Rose Hilda Sheard, of Port Elliott, South Australia
Roll of Honour: Nuriootpa SA
Remembered: Panel 103, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
On 22 July 1942, Hudson A16-201 went missing on operations in the Buna Bay vicinity. The crew members of A16-201 were:
Pilot Officer Warren Frank Cowan (407614) (Pilot)
Sergeant Russell Bradburn Polack (411183) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Laurie Edwin Sheard (416369) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer David Reid Taylor (408206) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Crew of Hudson A16-201
It is believed that Warren Cowan and his crew including Lauri Sheard, were originally interred at Lae War Cemetery. Their remains were repatriated there by USAF investigators who had recovered remains from a US C-47 transport, when they were told by villages of another wreck in the area. It was later identified as Cowan's Hudson.
Pilot Officer Warren Cowan (/explore/people/512084), 31 years old from Angaston SA, was killed in action on 22 July 1942, along with his crew;
Navigator, Pilot Officer David Taylor (/explore/people/649251), 33, from Hobart Tasmania and
Gunners Sergeant Russell Polack (/explore/people/643628), 24 of Summer Hill NSW, and Sergeant Lauri Sheard, 20, of Nuriootpa, SA.
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