LEST WE FORGET

Flying Officer Alan James DUNCAN

Service No: 418363
Born: Flemington VIC, 20 February 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 May 1942
Unit: No. 44 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Dunholme Lodge
Died: Air Operations: (No. 44 Squadron Lancaster aircraft PB266), Germany, 29 July 1944, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bad Tolz, Bayern Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Charles Alexander Duncan and Violet Elizabeth Duncan, of Brighton, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Brighton VIC
Remembered: Panel 121, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT

At 2159 hours on the night of 28 July 1944 Lancaster PB266 took off from Dunholme Lodge detailed to bomb Stuttgart, Germany. The aircraft crashed at 0230 hours on the 29 July 1944 at Stuttgart-Wangen, in the Gewand bottleneck approximately 200 metres below the Neckar Bridge Unterturkheimer. Three of the crew members were killed, three were taken prisoner and one evaded capture.

The crew members of PB266 were:

Sergeant William Irvin Dransfield (1684242) (RAFVR) (Navigator) PoW
Flying Officer Alan James Duncan (418363) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Francis Edward Hennessy (1497963) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Harry Charles Kneil (1187608) (RAFVR) (Bomb Aimer) PoW
Flight Sergeant Michael Joseph Nolan (7188) (Wireless Operator Air) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 11 December 1945
Flight Sergeant George Arthur Walker (1216533) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant F R W Waters (1876128) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer) Evaded capture

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, 166/10/282

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