LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Kenneth William LONGMORE
Service No: 413622
Born: Claremont WA, 28 January 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 12 September 1941 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 90 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Wratting Common
Died: Air Operations: (No. 90 Squadron Stirling aircraft EH937), North Sea, 24 August 1943, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Charles and Harriet Ann Longmore, of Cobar, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Perth WA
Remembered: Panel 193, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2037 hours on 23 August 1943 Stirling EH937 took off from Wratting Common to carry out an attack on Berlin. The ETA back at base was 0330 hours on 24 August. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. The bodies of two crew members were later washed ashore in the Netherlands.
The crew members of EH937 were:
Sergeant Charles Colin Jeffrey (1582911) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant Ronald Lloyd Jones (971236) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Albert Eric Lloyd (1304616) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Kenneth William Longmore (413622) (Pilot)
Sergeant Cecil Joseph Purcell (591849) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Warrant Officer II Lloyd Martin Stormer (R/112684) (RCAF) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant Victor Alfred Weaver (960685) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator)
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, 166/25/67