LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Jack Edward FRAZER
Service No: 423710
Born: Rochester VIC, 16 April 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 July 1942 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 16 Operational Training Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 16 Operational Training Unit Wellington aircraft LN532), Northamptonshire, 29 September 1943, Aged 19 Years
Buried: Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, Oxfordshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Clive Eglinton Frazer and Letitia Maria Frazer, of Kew, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Rochester VIC
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2025 hours on the night of 28 September 1943 Wellington LN532 took off from RAF Upper Heyford detailed to carry out a Bullseye exercise. The exercise was from Base to Worcester-Calne-VU4535-Poole-WQ225701-Westminster Bridge-Conway-Peterborough-Base. At around 0100 hours the aircraft broke cloud, base 800 to 900 feet, and flew into the ground at Whittlebury Wood, Whittlebury, three miles south of Towcester, Northamptonshire. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of LN532 were:
Sergeant Jack Edward Frazer (423710) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Reginald George Lees (1214347) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Norman Frederick Paice (1318427) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Geoffrey Pearson (1219649) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant William Frederick Charles Wisdom (925214) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
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, 166/14/102