LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Kenneth Ebenezer ADAMSON
Service No: 409785
Born: Fitzroy VIC, 13 October 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 10 October 1941
Unit: No. 454 Squadron, Berka III Landing Ground, Libya
Died: Air Operations: (No. 454 Squadron Baltimore aircraft FA 602), Aegean Sea, 29 November 1943, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Ebenezer and Clara Gladstone Adamson, of East Kew, Victoria, Australia.
Roll of Honour: Ivanhoe VIC
Remembered: Column 272, Alamein Memorial, Egypt
Remembered: Panel 105, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 29 November 1943, Baltimore FA 602 was detailed to conduct a photographic reconnaissance of shipping routes along the eastern coast of Greece and islands in the Aegean Sea. The aircraft was airborne at 0655 hours and made a sighting report at 0950 hours. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft which was well inside enemy territory at the time of the sighting report.
The crew members of FA 602 were:
Flying Officer Kenneth Ebenezer Adamson (409785) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Gordon Edward Marland (415544) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Arthur Peter Spencer Milligan (141561) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Fred Leonard William Pritchard (416995) (Wireless Air Gunner)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/3/145