LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant David George BADGERY
Service No: 426772
Born: Yass NSW, 21 October 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 July 1942 (at Brisbane QLD)
Unit: No. 226 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Hartford Bridge
Died: Air Operations: (No. 226 Squadron Mitchell aircraft FL192), English Channel, 19 June 1944, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Malcolm Fox Badgery and Mary Emily Badgery, of Roma, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Roma QLD
Remembered: Panel 259, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 118, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On the night of 18/19 June 1944 Mitchell FL192 took off from RAF Station Hartford Bridge detailed to attack the battle zone in France. The aircraft was damaged by enemy action. The crew tried to fly the aircraft back, but it crashed into the sea on the way back to base.
The crew members of FL192 were:
Flight Sergeant Donald Algernon Joseph Ahearn (423032) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant David George Badgery (426772) (Navigator Bomb Aimer)
Flight Sergeant Conrad Peter Vivian Biddlecombe (R/164649) (RCAF) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Rayburn William Thomas Ulens (R/191540) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
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, 166/5/573