WW2 Service Royal Australian Air Force Rank Sergeant 412545
Posting on Death: 32 Squadron
He died along with 4 other crew when their Hudson A16-152 crashed and burned 25 kms south west of Camden while on a cross country training flight.
The aircraft took off from Camden at approximately 1315 on 26/1/43 to carry out a crew training cross country flight Camden-Wagga-Forbes-Lithgow-Camden.
At 1337L hours the Aerodrome Control Officer Camden received a report from The Public Works Department at The Oaks stating that an aircraft appeared to crash nearby.This aircraft proved to be Hudson A16-152 which had crashed shortly after take off on a wooded slope at Victoria Park Picton
There were no survivors.
The crew members of A16-152 were:
Flight Sergeant Henry Bennett Langman Johns (407122) (Observer)
Sergeant Gordon Thomas Lawson (412545) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Bertie Clifford James Pearson (402978) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Stuart Kennedy Scott (402996) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant George Douglas Voyzey (402930) (Wireless Air Gunner)
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Richmond NSW, also his name is located at panel 103 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
Son of George Samuel (served in Boer War in NSW Bushmen) and Amy Lawson, of North Richmond
Husband of Irene Joy (nee Flicker) Lawson, of Bellevue Hill.
Irene remarried Philip Ross Heyde in 1945
Posting on Death: 32 Squadron
He died along with 4 other crew when their Hudson A16-152 crashed and burned 25 kms south west of Camden while on a cross country training flight.
The aircraft took off from Camden at approximately 1315 on 26/1/43 to carry out a crew training cross country flight Camden-Wagga-Forbes-Lithgow-Camden.
At 1337L hours the Aerodrome Control Officer Camden received a report from The Public Works Department at The Oaks stating that an aircraft appeared to crash nearby.This aircraft proved to be Hudson A16-152 which had crashed shortly after take off on a wooded slope at Victoria Park Picton
There were no survivors.
The crew members of A16-152 were:
Flight Sergeant Henry Bennett Langman Johns (407122) (Observer)
Sergeant Gordon Thomas Lawson (412545) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Bertie Clifford James Pearson (402978) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Stuart Kennedy Scott (402996) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant George Douglas Voyzey (402930) (Wireless Air Gunner)
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Richmond NSW, also his name is located at panel 103 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
Son of George Samuel (served in Boer War in NSW Bushmen) and Amy Lawson, of North Richmond
Husband of Irene Joy (nee Flicker) Lawson, of Bellevue Hill.
Irene remarried Philip Ross Heyde in 1945
WW2 Service Royal Australian Air Force Rank Sergeant 412545
Posting on Death: 32 Squadron
He died along with 4 other crew when their Hudson A16-152 crashed and burned 25 kms south west of Camden while on a cross country training flight.
The aircraft took off from Camden at approximately 1315 on 26/1/43 to carry out a crew training cross country flight Camden-Wagga-Forbes-Lithgow-Camden.
At 1337L hours the Aerodrome Control Officer Camden received a report from The Public Works Department at The Oaks stating that an aircraft appeared to crash nearby.This aircraft proved to be Hudson A16-152 which had crashed shortly after take off on a wooded slope at Victoria Park Picton
There were no survivors.
The crew members of A16-152 were:
Flight Sergeant Henry Bennett Langman Johns (407122) (Observer)
Sergeant Gordon Thomas Lawson (412545) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Bertie Clifford James Pearson (402978) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Stuart Kennedy Scott (402996) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant George Douglas Voyzey (402930) (Wireless Air Gunner)
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Richmond NSW, also his name is located at panel 103 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
Son of George Samuel (served in Boer War in NSW Bushmen) and Amy Lawson, of North Richmond
Husband of Irene Joy (nee Flicker) Lawson, of Bellevue Hill.
Irene remarried Philip Ross Heyde in 1945
Posting on Death: 32 Squadron
He died along with 4 other crew when their Hudson A16-152 crashed and burned 25 kms south west of Camden while on a cross country training flight.
The aircraft took off from Camden at approximately 1315 on 26/1/43 to carry out a crew training cross country flight Camden-Wagga-Forbes-Lithgow-Camden.
At 1337L hours the Aerodrome Control Officer Camden received a report from The Public Works Department at The Oaks stating that an aircraft appeared to crash nearby.This aircraft proved to be Hudson A16-152 which had crashed shortly after take off on a wooded slope at Victoria Park Picton
There were no survivors.
The crew members of A16-152 were:
Flight Sergeant Henry Bennett Langman Johns (407122) (Observer)
Sergeant Gordon Thomas Lawson (412545) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Bertie Clifford James Pearson (402978) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Stuart Kennedy Scott (402996) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant George Douglas Voyzey (402930) (Wireless Air Gunner)
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Richmond NSW, also his name is located at panel 103 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
Son of George Samuel (served in Boer War in NSW Bushmen) and Amy Lawson, of North Richmond
Husband of Irene Joy (nee Flicker) Lawson, of Bellevue Hill.
Irene remarried Philip Ross Heyde in 1945
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Records on Ancestry
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Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950
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Australia and New Zealand, Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
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UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947
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Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945
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