LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Trevor Leslie GIBSON
Service No: 402858
Born: Inverell NSW, 14 January 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF:
Unit: No. 9 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Waddington
Died: Air Operations (No. 9 Squadron Lancaster aircraft W4157), North West Europe, 18 January 1943, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Husband of G. E. Gibson, of Kingsford, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 191, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1658 hours on 17 January 1943 Lancaster W4157 took off from Waddington to attack Berlin. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. With no trace of the aircraft or crew being found following post war investigations and enquiries, it was recorded in 1950 that the crew members were missing with no known graves.
The crew members of W4157 were:
Sergeant John William Robinson Broadley (1067031) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Trevor Leslie Gibson (402858) (Pilot)
Pilot Officer Eric William Mitchell Jacombs (413422) (RNZAF) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Harry Goodwin Jenkins (1186208) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Bernard Kenneth Skinner (1112266) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Pilot Officer Cyril Garnett Tilson MID (127792) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Warrant Officer II Francis Arthur Webb (R/93492) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Stanley Wescombe (527172) (RAF) (Flight Engineer)
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, 166/15/4