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Sgt Desmond Ernest George Denier

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Sgt Desmond Ernest George Denier Veteran

Birth
Hawthorn, Boroondara City, Victoria, Australia
Death
7 Aug 1941 (aged 29)
Thorembais-Saint-Trond, Arrondissement de Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
Burial
Perwez, Arrondissement de Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium Add to Map
Plot
Grave 6.
Memorial ID
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400014 Royal Australian Air Force Age 29 (Observer)
Posting on Death: 149 Squadron, Mildenhall, Suffolk.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wellington IC X 9633; Place - over Germany; Date - 7 August 1941.
Shot down by a night fighter at Thorembais-St Trond 9 Miles East of Wavre during a raid on Mannheim.
The crew of Wellington IC X 9633 were;
DENIER Desmond Ernest George - (Sergeant); Service Number - 400014
FARMER T – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1053520
ELLIS F S – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1251685
YOXALL A – (Sergeant); Service Number – 987565
LICKLEY G – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1055299
QUINLAND V B – Service Number – R58012 - Canada

He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Malvern Vic, also his name is located at panel 121 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.

Description of Studio portrait of 400014 Sergeant (Sgt) Desmond Ernest George Denier, 149 Squadron, RAAF, from Wentworth, NSW. Sgt Denier enlisted on 28 April 1940. He was killed with his entire crew during operations over Belgium on 7 August 1941 while attached to 149 Squadron, RAF, and is buried in Thorembais-St Trond Communal Cemetery near Perwez, Belgium. At the time of his death he was onboard Vickers Wellington MkIC bomber, serial number X9633. The personal inscription as chosen by his family for his gravestone reads 'IN PROUD MEMORY OF "DES." LOVED LONG SINCE, NOW LOST AWHILE'.

Son of John Thomas Denier and Ella May Denier; husband of Mona Marguerite Denier, of Wentworth, New South Wales, Australia.
Father John Thomas Henry Denier (1888-1949)
Mother Ella May Rowe (1890-1979)
Spouse Mona Marguerite Bear (1913-1969)
400014 Royal Australian Air Force Age 29 (Observer)
Posting on Death: 149 Squadron, Mildenhall, Suffolk.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wellington IC X 9633; Place - over Germany; Date - 7 August 1941.
Shot down by a night fighter at Thorembais-St Trond 9 Miles East of Wavre during a raid on Mannheim.
The crew of Wellington IC X 9633 were;
DENIER Desmond Ernest George - (Sergeant); Service Number - 400014
FARMER T – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1053520
ELLIS F S – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1251685
YOXALL A – (Sergeant); Service Number – 987565
LICKLEY G – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1055299
QUINLAND V B – Service Number – R58012 - Canada

He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Malvern Vic, also his name is located at panel 121 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.

Description of Studio portrait of 400014 Sergeant (Sgt) Desmond Ernest George Denier, 149 Squadron, RAAF, from Wentworth, NSW. Sgt Denier enlisted on 28 April 1940. He was killed with his entire crew during operations over Belgium on 7 August 1941 while attached to 149 Squadron, RAF, and is buried in Thorembais-St Trond Communal Cemetery near Perwez, Belgium. At the time of his death he was onboard Vickers Wellington MkIC bomber, serial number X9633. The personal inscription as chosen by his family for his gravestone reads 'IN PROUD MEMORY OF "DES." LOVED LONG SINCE, NOW LOST AWHILE'.

Son of John Thomas Denier and Ella May Denier; husband of Mona Marguerite Denier, of Wentworth, New South Wales, Australia.
Father John Thomas Henry Denier (1888-1949)
Mother Ella May Rowe (1890-1979)
Spouse Mona Marguerite Bear (1913-1969)

Inscription

IN PROUD MEMORY OF "DES."
LOVED LONG SINCE,
NOW LOST AWHILE



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