LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Alexander Gordon ADDISON
Service No: 400685
Born: Gardenvale VIC, 11 February 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 13 October 1940
Unit: No. 3 Aircraft Delivery Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 3 Aircraft Delivery Unit Wellington aircraft DF703), Tunisia, 4 December 1943, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Medjez War Cemetery, Tunisia
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George and Amy May Addison; husband of Marion Joyce Addison, of Neerim, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Neerim South VIC
Remembered: Panel 118, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1600 hours on 4 December 1943, Wellington DF703 crashed near Tunis, Tunisia, while being ferried from No. 162 Maintenance Unit, Blida, to No. 205 Group. It was believed the accident occurred due to failure of the aircraft brakes. Pilot Officer Addison died of his injuries, and the others on board were not injured.
The crew members of DF703 were:
Flying Officer Alexander Gordon Addison (400685) (Pilot)
Flight Lieutenant Allan Michael Ramsay (277492) (Pilot, Supernumerary) Uninjured, Discharged from the RAAF: 1 July 1947
Warrant Officer Mervyn Walter Scope (404121) (Second Pilot) Uninjured, Discharged from the RAAF: 6 October 1945
Sergeant H S Wiltshire (1312106) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner) Uninjured
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, 166/3/153