LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Kenneth Trewin ROBERTSON
Service No: 404285
Born: Melbourne VIC, 27 November 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 19 July 1940 (at Brisbane QLD)
Unit: No. 21 Operational Training Unit (RAF), RAF Station Moreton-in-Marsh
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 21 Operational Training Unit Wellington aircraft T2458), Warwickshire, 24 July 1941, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Long Lawford (St John’s Chapel) Churchyard, Warwickshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William May Robertson and Ethel Lily Robertson, of Roma, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Roma QLD
Remembered: Panel 129, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On the night of 23 July 1941Wellington T2458 took off from Moreton-in-Marsh detailed to carry out a combined night cross-country and bombing practice over the Radway ranges. The aircraft was reported to have completed the bombing phase, when, at 0112 hours, it went out of control and crashed into Ufton Wood, north east of the hamlet of Ufton, and five miles east south east of Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. All the crew members were killed in the crash.
The crew members of T2458 were:
Flight Sergeant Albert Henry Bell (937637) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Edward Richard Kennedy (R/56203) (RCAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant James Forrest MacMillan (R/2048A) (RCAF) (Observer)
Sergeant Ian Robert Mackintosh (1253249) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Kenneth Trewin Robertson (404285) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant John Noel Snowden (1174338) (RAFVR) (Third Pilot)
Flying Officer Carmen Fletcher Sutcliffe (42908) (RAF) (Pilot)
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, 163/158/158