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Royal Australian Air Force Rank Pilot Officer 409252
Posting on Death: 467 Squadron, Waddington, Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster ED 547; Place - Berlin, Germany; Date - 29 December 1943.
Shot down at Grosszeithen 9 Miles South of the City Centre during a raid on Berlin.
The crew members of ED547 were:
Pilot Officer Francis McIvor Allen (144928) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Sidney Allom (1338809) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Leslie Ernest Lambert (1586401) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Francis Arthur Spencer (R/139365) (RCAF) (Bomb Aimer)
Pilot Officer Bruce Alexander Tait (409252) (Pilot)
Sergeant Dennis Wetherell (953203) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Robert Alec Yale (1583664) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Description of Group portrait of RAAF officers attending No 3 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS). Identified from left to right, back row: 403993 Donald Hamilton Thompson; four unidentified; 409252 Bruce Alexander Tait (who was killed in action on 29 December 1943 when the Landcaster Bomber he was piloting crashed at Grossziehten, near Berlin);
Remembrance & Family
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Ivanhoe Vic, also his name is located at panel 111 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of James and Mabel Isabel Tait, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Royal Australian Air Force Rank Pilot Officer 409252
Posting on Death: 467 Squadron, Waddington, Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster ED 547; Place - Berlin, Germany; Date - 29 December 1943.
Shot down at Grosszeithen 9 Miles South of the City Centre during a raid on Berlin.
The crew members of ED547 were:
Pilot Officer Francis McIvor Allen (144928) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Sidney Allom (1338809) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Leslie Ernest Lambert (1586401) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Francis Arthur Spencer (R/139365) (RCAF) (Bomb Aimer)
Pilot Officer Bruce Alexander Tait (409252) (Pilot)
Sergeant Dennis Wetherell (953203) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Robert Alec Yale (1583664) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Description of Group portrait of RAAF officers attending No 3 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS). Identified from left to right, back row: 403993 Donald Hamilton Thompson; four unidentified; 409252 Bruce Alexander Tait (who was killed in action on 29 December 1943 when the Landcaster Bomber he was piloting crashed at Grossziehten, near Berlin);
Remembrance & Family
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Ivanhoe Vic, also his name is located at panel 111 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of James and Mabel Isabel Tait, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
View Memorial site here
Royal Australian Air Force Rank Pilot Officer 409252
Posting on Death: 467 Squadron, Waddington, Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster ED 547; Place - Berlin, Germany; Date - 29 December 1943.
Shot down at Grosszeithen 9 Miles South of the City Centre during a raid on Berlin.
The crew members of ED547 were:
Pilot Officer Francis McIvor Allen (144928) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Sidney Allom (1338809) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Leslie Ernest Lambert (1586401) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Francis Arthur Spencer (R/139365) (RCAF) (Bomb Aimer)
Pilot Officer Bruce Alexander Tait (409252) (Pilot)
Sergeant Dennis Wetherell (953203) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Robert Alec Yale (1583664) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Description of Group portrait of RAAF officers attending No 3 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS). Identified from left to right, back row: 403993 Donald Hamilton Thompson; four unidentified; 409252 Bruce Alexander Tait (who was killed in action on 29 December 1943 when the Landcaster Bomber he was piloting crashed at Grossziehten, near Berlin);
Remembrance & Family
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Ivanhoe Vic, also his name is located at panel 111 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of James and Mabel Isabel Tait, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Royal Australian Air Force Rank Pilot Officer 409252
Posting on Death: 467 Squadron, Waddington, Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster ED 547; Place - Berlin, Germany; Date - 29 December 1943.
Shot down at Grosszeithen 9 Miles South of the City Centre during a raid on Berlin.
The crew members of ED547 were:
Pilot Officer Francis McIvor Allen (144928) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Sidney Allom (1338809) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Leslie Ernest Lambert (1586401) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Francis Arthur Spencer (R/139365) (RCAF) (Bomb Aimer)
Pilot Officer Bruce Alexander Tait (409252) (Pilot)
Sergeant Dennis Wetherell (953203) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Robert Alec Yale (1583664) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Description of Group portrait of RAAF officers attending No 3 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS). Identified from left to right, back row: 403993 Donald Hamilton Thompson; four unidentified; 409252 Bruce Alexander Tait (who was killed in action on 29 December 1943 when the Landcaster Bomber he was piloting crashed at Grossziehten, near Berlin);
Remembrance & Family
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Ivanhoe Vic, also his name is located at panel 111 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of James and Mabel Isabel Tait, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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