LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Frederic Norman GRANT
Service No: 404461
Born: Sydney NSW, 11 April 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 19 August 1940 (at Brisbane QLD)
Unit: No. 21 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Watton
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 21 Squadron Blenheim aircraft V5463), Watton, 13 September 1941, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Watton (St Mary) Churchyard, Norfolk
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Norman Frederic and Maud Florence Grant, of Auchenflower, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 123, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Blenheim V5463 took off from Watton for a training flight at 1108 hours on 13 September 1941, but the aircraft stalled, crashed into a hangar and burst into flames. It was considered that the aircraft climbed at too steep an angle. Five crew members were killed.
The crew members of V5463 were:
Corporal E Clayton (RAF) (Supernumerary) Injured
Pilot Officer Frederic Norman Grant (404461) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Ronald Edward Hall MID (364803) (RAF)
Sergeant Peter Ernest Ritter (1375091) (RAFVR) (Observer)
Sergeant Thomas James Wade Thomas (1182155) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Ernest James Tuckey (106543) (RAF) (Observer)
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, 163/34/129