LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer William Keith HAYNE
Service No: 404531
Born: Gundagai NSW, 15 October 1911
Enlisted in the RAAF: 13 September 1940 (at Brisbane QLD)
Unit: No. 104 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Driffield
Died: Air Operations: (No. 104 Squadron Wellington aircraft Z8426), North West Europe, 7 December 1941, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William Thomas Hayne and Bertha Hayne, of Woy Woy, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Young NSW
Remembered: Panel 62, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 123, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2005 hours on 7 December 1941 Wellington Z8426 took off from Driffield to attack Dunkirk, but did not return to base from the mission. It was presumed that the aircraft was missing as a result of enemy action, and that the crew members had been lost at sea.
The crew members of Z8426 were:
Sergeant Reginald Kenneth Anson (1154272) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant William Walter Covey (751961) (RAFVR)
Pilot Officer William Keith Hayne (404531) (Observer)
Flight Sergeant Henry Brodie McGarrow (935691) (RAFVR)
Pilot Officer Bernard Norris Murdoch (40421) (RNZAF)
Sergeant Raymond Turner (1256781) (RAFVR)
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, 163/35/149