Flight Lieutenant, Royal Australian Air Force. Age: 30. 420237 (Navigator)
Posting on Death: 156 Squadron RAF, Upwood, Huntingdonshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster NE 143; Place - St Quentin, France; Date - 1 June 1944.
Shot down by a Night Fighter at Le Neuville Northwest of the Target during a raid on the Tergnier Railway Yards, 4 Crew Survived, 3 evaded capture.
The crew of Lancaster NE 143 were;
KENNEDY, Terence William - (Pilot Officer) - 420237 (Navigator)
SAMSON, Ronald Hockey (Flight Lieutenant) DFC (414264) (Pilot) Evaded capture, Discharged from the RAAF: 15 August 1946.
GILCHRIST Arnold A – (Warrant Officer) – 409105 (PoW)
Date of Discharge: 4 Oct 1945. See Cenotaph here in Victorian Garden of Remembrance.
ANDREWS Ronald J – (Warrant Officer) – 1314936 * (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
BURTON, Ronald G – (Flight Sergeant) – 1801606 * (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
BRYANT, A G – (Flight Sergeant) – 1601736 (Upper Gunner) Evaded Capture.
WHITMORE H N – (Flight Sergeant)– 1535794 (RAFVR) Rear Gunner (Evaded Capture.)
Remembrance & Family
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sydney NSW, also his name is located at panel 125 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Selwyn and Eva Emily Kennedy; husband of Olive Mary Kennedy, of Belmore, New South Wales, Australia.
Posting on Death: 156 Squadron RAF, Upwood, Huntingdonshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster NE 143; Place - St Quentin, France; Date - 1 June 1944.
Shot down by a Night Fighter at Le Neuville Northwest of the Target during a raid on the Tergnier Railway Yards, 4 Crew Survived, 3 evaded capture.
The crew of Lancaster NE 143 were;
KENNEDY, Terence William - (Pilot Officer) - 420237 (Navigator)
SAMSON, Ronald Hockey (Flight Lieutenant) DFC (414264) (Pilot) Evaded capture, Discharged from the RAAF: 15 August 1946.
GILCHRIST Arnold A – (Warrant Officer) – 409105 (PoW)
Date of Discharge: 4 Oct 1945. See Cenotaph here in Victorian Garden of Remembrance.
ANDREWS Ronald J – (Warrant Officer) – 1314936 * (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
BURTON, Ronald G – (Flight Sergeant) – 1801606 * (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
BRYANT, A G – (Flight Sergeant) – 1601736 (Upper Gunner) Evaded Capture.
WHITMORE H N – (Flight Sergeant)– 1535794 (RAFVR) Rear Gunner (Evaded Capture.)
Remembrance & Family
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sydney NSW, also his name is located at panel 125 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Selwyn and Eva Emily Kennedy; husband of Olive Mary Kennedy, of Belmore, New South Wales, Australia.
Flight Lieutenant, Royal Australian Air Force. Age: 30. 420237 (Navigator)
Posting on Death: 156 Squadron RAF, Upwood, Huntingdonshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster NE 143; Place - St Quentin, France; Date - 1 June 1944.
Shot down by a Night Fighter at Le Neuville Northwest of the Target during a raid on the Tergnier Railway Yards, 4 Crew Survived, 3 evaded capture.
The crew of Lancaster NE 143 were;
KENNEDY, Terence William - (Pilot Officer) - 420237 (Navigator)
SAMSON, Ronald Hockey (Flight Lieutenant) DFC (414264) (Pilot) Evaded capture, Discharged from the RAAF: 15 August 1946.
GILCHRIST Arnold A – (Warrant Officer) – 409105 (PoW)
Date of Discharge: 4 Oct 1945. See Cenotaph here in Victorian Garden of Remembrance.
ANDREWS Ronald J – (Warrant Officer) – 1314936 * (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
BURTON, Ronald G – (Flight Sergeant) – 1801606 * (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
BRYANT, A G – (Flight Sergeant) – 1601736 (Upper Gunner) Evaded Capture.
WHITMORE H N – (Flight Sergeant)– 1535794 (RAFVR) Rear Gunner (Evaded Capture.)
Remembrance & Family
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sydney NSW, also his name is located at panel 125 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Selwyn and Eva Emily Kennedy; husband of Olive Mary Kennedy, of Belmore, New South Wales, Australia.
Posting on Death: 156 Squadron RAF, Upwood, Huntingdonshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster NE 143; Place - St Quentin, France; Date - 1 June 1944.
Shot down by a Night Fighter at Le Neuville Northwest of the Target during a raid on the Tergnier Railway Yards, 4 Crew Survived, 3 evaded capture.
The crew of Lancaster NE 143 were;
KENNEDY, Terence William - (Pilot Officer) - 420237 (Navigator)
SAMSON, Ronald Hockey (Flight Lieutenant) DFC (414264) (Pilot) Evaded capture, Discharged from the RAAF: 15 August 1946.
GILCHRIST Arnold A – (Warrant Officer) – 409105 (PoW)
Date of Discharge: 4 Oct 1945. See Cenotaph here in Victorian Garden of Remembrance.
ANDREWS Ronald J – (Warrant Officer) – 1314936 * (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
BURTON, Ronald G – (Flight Sergeant) – 1801606 * (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
BRYANT, A G – (Flight Sergeant) – 1601736 (Upper Gunner) Evaded Capture.
WHITMORE H N – (Flight Sergeant)– 1535794 (RAFVR) Rear Gunner (Evaded Capture.)
Remembrance & Family
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sydney NSW, also his name is located at panel 125 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Selwyn and Eva Emily Kennedy; husband of Olive Mary Kennedy, of Belmore, New South Wales, Australia.
Inscription
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
THAN TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE
FOR HIS FRIEND
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Records on Ancestry
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Web: UK and Allied Countries, Index of International Bomber Command Losses, 1936-1966
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Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
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New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957
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