LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer John Roger GARLING
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 154595 (RAFVR)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 57 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station East Kirkby
Died: Air Operations: (No. 57 Squadron Lancaster I aircraft SW245), English Channel, 17 December 1944, Aged 35 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Phillip and Ella M Garling, of Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 206, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Remembered: Dee Why RSL Roll of Honour, Dee Why NSW
On 17 December 1944, Lancaster SW245 took off from East Kirkby to attack Munich. The aircraft crashed in the English Channel off Dieppe and six crew members were killed and one fatally injured.
The crew members of SW245 were:
Sergeant Haakon Granli Bjoroy (Royal Norwegian Air Force) (Air Bomber)
Captain Neils Christian Evensen (Royal Norwegian Air Force) (Pilot)
Pilot Officer John Roger Garling (154595) (RAFVR) (Observer)
Flight Sergeant Walter Hartmann Gulliksen (Royal Norwegian Air Force) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Arthur Royston Powell (1809356) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner) Fatally injured, Died: 6 January 1945
Sergeant Donald Charles Scott (1160335) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Warrant Officer Albert Thomason (1117171) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 5 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1944, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1997
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line