LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Cedric Ivan BARBER
Service No: 415959
Born: Pingelly WA, 2 December 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 April 1942
Unit: No. 1 Squadron, Menangle NSW
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 1 Squadron Beaufort aircraft A9-507), Morundah NSW, 2 February 1944, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Narrendera War Cemetery NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Stanley Hedley Barber and Edith May Barber; husband of Ethel Mary Barber, of Northam, Western Australia.
Roll of Honour: Yealering WA
Remembered: Panel 97, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Cenotaph Undercroft, State War Memorial, Kings Park WA
On 2 February 1944, Beaufort aircraft A9-505 and A9-507 had a mid-air collision near Morundah. All ten RAAF members on both aircraft were killed.
The crew members of A9-507 were:
Flight Sergeant Percival Allen (415957) (Pilot)
Flying Officer Cedric Ivan Barber (415959) (Observer)
Flying Officer Donald Glen Broad (437112) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant George Russell McCausland (419053) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Leading Aircraftman Richard Keith Shelton (88452) (Ground Crew, Photographer)
The crew members of A9-505 were:
Flight Sergeant Stanley Murray Johnston (429967) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Jack Stace Newnham (423876) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Leading Aircraftman John Lovell Parer Nugent (130211) (Ground Crew, Instrument Fitter)
Flight Sergeant Michael O’Malley (426903) (Observer)
Flight Sergeant George Livingstone Forbes Wood (415097) (Pilot)
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 A9845, 176
Further Reading:
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1990