LEST WE FORGET

Warrant Officer Keith Mortimer BRIGHT

Service No: 426496
Born: London, England, 11 April 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 17 July 1942 (at Brisbane QLD)
Unit: No. 214 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Oulton
Died: Air Operations: (No. 214 Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress Aircraft HB788), Germany, 6 November 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Frank Mortimer Bright and Ivy Kathleen Bright, of Coorparoo, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 119, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT

At 1623 hours on the night of 6 November 1944 Fortress HB788 took off from Oulton detailed to carry out a special duty operation to Rheine, Germany. The aircraft crashed at Altenberge, Germany, and all the crew members were killed.

The crew members of HB788 were:

Flight Sergeant Rodney Claude Bartlett (1850398) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Warrant Officer Keith Mortimer Bright (426496) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Kenneth Joseph Fletcher (1880697) (RAFVR) (Waist Gunner)
Pilot Officer David Hardie (184768) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Pilot Officer William Ralph Harding (184635) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flying Officer John Malcolm Shand Jackson (171668) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Ernest George Kelly (1875358) (RAFVR) (Special Operator)
Sergeant Norman Victor Madgwick (1606117) (RAFVR) (Waist Gunner)
Warrant Officer I Raymond Daniel Picciano (R/140622) (RCAF) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant Herbert Clare Pollard (1109146) (RAFVR) (Wireless 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, 166/6/782

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