LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant David LIVINGSTONE
Service No: 421540
Born: Overtown, Scotland, 17 November 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 1 February 1942 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 57 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station East Kirkby
Died: Air Operations: (No. 57 Squadron Lancaster aircraft JA914), Germany, 4 September 1943, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Henry Paterson Livingstone and Martha Jack Livingstone, of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Lithgow NSW
Remembered: Panel 193, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1930 hours on 3 September 1943 Lancaster JA914 took off from East Kirby to attack Berlin. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. Post war examination of German documents revealed that the aircraft crashed near Zessen, 30 miles south of Berlin, in the early hours of 4 September. All the crew members had been killed.
The crew members of JA914 were:
Sergeant James Thomson Carruthers (1345462) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Pilot Officer William Edward Grindley (J/18200) (RCAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant Hugh Ivor Jones (1436993) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant David Livingstone (421540) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Albert Moore (1205347) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Henry Mitchell Porteous (R/121256) (RCAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Arthur Sutcliffe (649134) (RAF) (Flight Engineer)
The remains of three crew members were identified and the remaining four missing members are recorded as having no known graves.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/24/175