LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant David Bruce Ernst BACON
Service No: 434190
Born: Sydney NSW, 25 June 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 November 1942 (at Melbourne VIC)
Unit: No. 18 Squadron
Died: Air Operations: (No. 18 Squadron Mitchell aircraft N5-222), Kai Islands, New Guinea, 15 September 1944, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Ambon War Cemetery, Indonesia
CWGC Additional Information: Son of David and Elsie Adelaide Bacon; husband of Thelma Catherine Bacon, of Elwood, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: St Kilda VIC
Remembered: Panel 101, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
The crew members of N5-222 were:
Flight Sergeant David Bruce Ernst Bacon (434190)
Sergeant F De Rozario (NEIAF)
Sergeant F Engelsman (NEIAF)
Flying Officer W J M Scholte (NEIAF)
Flying Officer H J Van Rennessee (NEIAF)
Flying Officer K G Volger (NEIAF)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/5/698
Bibliography:
Hurst, D. (Doug) The Fourth Ally: The Dutch forces in Australia in WWII, Doug Hurst, Canberra, 2001