LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Kevin Harold CROUCH
Service No: 17110
Born: Perth WA, 18 April 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 1 July 1940
Unit: No. 31 Squadron, Coomalie Creek NT
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 31 Squadron Beaufighter aircraft A19-193), near Coomalie NT, 3 July 1944, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Adelaide River War Cemetery, NT
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Charles Harold and Hilda Heratta Crouch, of Cottesloe, Western Australia.
Roll of Honour: Cottesloe WA
Remembered: Panel 102, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Cenotaph Undercroft, State War Memorial, Kings Park WA
On 3 July 1944, A19-193 crashed and burned north west of Coomalie. On board were:
Flight Lieutenant William John Francis Coote (253938) (Pilot)
Corporal Kevin Harold Crouch (17110) (Fitter IIA, Supernumerary)
Warrant Officer Thomas James Matthew Dillon (424995) (Second Pilot) Seriously Injured, discharged from the RAAF: 4 December 1945
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, 21
Bibliography:
Parnell, N.M. (Neville M.) Whispering Death: A history of the RAAF’s Beaufighter Squadrons, AH & AW Reed Terry Hills NSW, 1980
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1990