LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Robert James EATON
Service No: 430960
Born: Holbrook NSW, 30 January 1925
Enlisted in the RAAF: 23 April 1943
Unit: Pathfinders Force Navigation Training Unit (RAF), RAF Station Warboys
Died: Aircraft Accident (Pathfinder Force Navigation Training Unit Mosquito aircraft KB206), Staffordshire, 2 March 1945, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridgeshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James Bygrove Eaton and Selina Marjorie Eaton, of Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Albury NSW
Remembered: Panel 121, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1915 hours on the 2 March 1945, Mosquito KB206 took off from Warboys detailed to carry out a high level cross-country exercise. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft and it broke-up and crashed at 2115 hours south of Leek, Staffordshire. Both crew members were killed.
The crew members of KB206 were:
Flight Lieutenant Arthur Ian Albertson AFC (80216) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Robert James Eaton (430960) (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, 166/11/246