LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Albert John GLAISTER
Service No: 411220
Born: West Wallsend NSW, 20 December 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 27 April 1941
Unit: No. 27 Operational Training Unit (RAF), RAF Station Lichfield
Died: Air Operations: (No. 27 Operational Training Unit Wellington aircraft K9685), Belgium, 28 April 1942, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Heverlee War Cemetery, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert Liddle Glaister, and Katie Glaister, of West Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Holmesville NSW
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: West Wallsend Wall of Remembrance, West Wallsend NSW
At 2108 hours on the night of 27 April 1943, Wellington K9685 took off from Lichfield detailed to scatter leaflets in the Lille region of France. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. It was later learned that all the crew members had been killed.
The crew members of K9635 were:
Flying Officer Laurence Guy Chick (403652) (Pilot)
Sergeant Frederick Joseph Dodd (1310824) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Albert John Glaister (411220) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Maurice Ben Remfry (402672) (Observer)
Sergeant John Richard Stukins (911756) (RAFVR) (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, 163/117/156
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line