LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Clement Neville BUIST
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 42690 (RAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 58 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Linton-on-Ouse
Died: Air Operations: (No. 58 Squadron Whitley V aircraft N1460), Germany, 19 June 1940, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Clement John and Gladys Buist, and adopted son of Beatrice B. Buist, of Petersham, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Whitley N1460 took off from Linton-on-Ouse at 2115 hours on Operation Castrop-Rauxel. Wireless signals reporting shipping had been sighted were received at 2335 hours, after which the bomber crashed at Neukirchen-Vluyn, 10 km north north west of Krefeld, Germany. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of N1460 were:
Pilot Officer Clement Neville Buist (42690) (RAF) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Malcolm Llewellyn Dent (524057) (RAF) (Observer)
Flying Officer John Thomson MacInnes (RAF) (37753) (Pilot)
Sergeant Cornelius Francis McKay (549190) (RAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Leonard Whittle (533685) (RAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Chorley, W.R. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 1 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1939-1940, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1992
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records