LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Basil John ADAM
Service No: 400451
Born: Brighton VIC, 26 March 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 14 September 1940
Unit: No. 114 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 114 Squadron Blenheim aircraft V6391), off the Dutch Coast, 14 January 1942, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Alexander Trelse Adam and Phyllis Adam; husband of Catherine Lucille Greta Adam, of St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 108, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 118, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1735 hours on 14 January 1942, Blenheim V6391 took off from West Raynham to bomb Schiphol, Netherlands. The aircraft was shot down by marine anti-aircraft fire and crashed into the sea off Schiermonnikoog and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of V6391 were:
Flight Lieutenant Basil John Adam (400451) (Pilot)
Flying Officer Frederick Walter Ollis Street-Porter (83000) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Joseph Arthur Willis (925267) (RAFVR)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 3 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1942, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1994
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/21/21