LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Robert George GORDON
Service No: 404865
Born: Brisbane QLD, 14 April 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 December 1940
Unit: No. 12 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Binbrook, Lincolnshire
Died: Air Operations: (No. 12 Squadron Wellington aircraft Z8342), Germany, 29 April 1942, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Kiel War Cemetery, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Andrew Mackie Gordon and Mary Jackson Gordon, of Tarragindi, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Wellington Z8342 took off from Binbrook at 2325 hours on the night of 28/29 April 1942 detailed to bomb Kiel, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. It was later established that the aircraft was shot down and crashed in the target area and all the crew members had been killed.
The crew members of Z8342 were:
Sergeant Colin Black Climie (1016825) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Robert George Gordon (404865) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Alan Robertson Holmes (928689) (RAFVR) (Observer)
Sergeant William Lloyd Huxley (939428) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant Walter Laurence Munns (1186623) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Norman Spray (1178776) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
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, 163/118/334