LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Walter Robert WREN
Service No: 402433
Born: Newtown NSW, 8 March 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 19 August 1940
Unit: Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit Wellington aircraft AD635), Algeria, 16 February 1942, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Bone War Cemetery, Annaba, Algeria
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert Colin and Edith Wren, of Morbank, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Liverpool NSW
Remembered: Panel 133, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 16 February 1942 Wellington AD635 crashed when in transit from the UK to the Middle East. Information from the United States’ Ambassador stated that the aircraft had crashed in mountains near Kef Cum Teboul, 12 miles east of La Cala near the Tunisian border. All the crew members had been killed.
The crew members of AD635 were:
Sergeant Clifford James Foote (656751) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Allan O’Brien (404564) (RNZAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant John Douglas Sandilands (402613) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Walter Brian Stehr (41499) (RNZAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant Alan Leslie Strang (400311) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Walter Robert Wren (402433) (Observer)
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, 163/179/136