LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant David Charles GRANT
Service No: 426437
Born: Granite Hills QLD, 11 November 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 July 1942
Unit: No. 10 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 10 Squadron Halifax aircraft HX186), Germany, 20 December 1943, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Donald and Dorothy Grant, of South Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Townsville QLD
Remembered: Panel 192, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 123, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1638 hours on 20 December 1943, Halifax HX186 took off from Melbourne to attack Frankfurt, Germany. The aircraft was lost with four crew members killed and three taken Prisoners of War.
The crew members of HX186 were:
Sergeant C J Baxter (1623222) (RAFVR) PoW
Sergeant William Borthwick (1559228) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant David Charles Grant (426437) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant A Hayes (1387098) (RAFVR) PoW
Sergeant T G F Kingham (1387013) (RAFVR) PoW
Sergeant Thomas Paling (1578718) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Jean Maxime Herve Rochecouste (1685967) (RAFVR)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 4 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1943, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1996
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/16/242