LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer John Henry Clarence DAVIE
Service No: 405678
Born: Tambo QLD, 18 June 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 24 May 1941
Unit: No. 214 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Chedburgh
Died: Air Operations: (No. 214 Squadron Stirling aircraft BK686), Germany, 26 July 1943, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Mary Ann Davie; husband of Joan Davie, of Ashgrove, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Rockhampton QLD
Remembered: Panel 121, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2245 hours on the night of 25/26 July1943 Stirling BK686 took off from Chedburg detailed to bomb Essen, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at Essen-Borbeck and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of BK686 were:
Flight Sergeant Eric Norman Bird (1386978) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flying Officer John Sinclair Clements (124440) (RAF) (Pilot)
Flying Officer John Henry Clarence Davie (405678) (Second Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Gordon Brown Fielder (755751) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Samuel John Greer (611098) (RAF) (Flight Engineer)
Flying Officer George Frederick McCleary (J/20104) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Hugh Owen (538488) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Denis Max Weddell (137107) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
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, 1661/9/133