LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Alan Richard FRAZER
Service No: 403327
Born: Sydney NSW, 16 May 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 January 1941
Unit: No. 14 Operational Training Unit (RAF), Detachment RAF Station Saltby, Leicestershire
Died: Aircraft Accident: (No. 14 Operational Training Unit Hampden aircraft L4108), Leicestershire, 27 March 1942, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Cottesmore (St Nicholas) Churchyard Extension, Rutland
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Archie and Millicent Gladys Frazer, of Haberfield, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: St David’s WWII Memorial Plaque, Haberfield NSW
Remembered: St David’s Haberfield WWII Roll of Honor, Haberfield NSW
On 27 March 1942 Hampden L4108 took off from RAF Saltby for night exercises, only to crash near the airfield. Visibility was poor at the time. Both the crew members were killed.
The crew members of L4108 were:
Sergeant Alan Richard Frazer (403327) (Pilot)
Sergeant Robert Fowlow King (798525) (RAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
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, 163/114/28
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line