LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer James Joseph HEWERDINE
Service No: 414137
Born: Maryborough QLD, 22 December 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 august 1941
Unit: No. 156 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Warboys
Died: Air Operations: (No. 156 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ED919), North West Europe, 13 July 1943, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert and May Hewerdine, of Granville, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Maryborough QLD
Remembered: Panel 191, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 123, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2248 hours on 12 July 1943 Lancaster ED919 took off from Warboys to carry out a bombing attack on Turin, Italy. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. In 1948 it was reported that no trace could be found of the missing crew who were recorded as having no known graves.
The crew members of ED919 were:
Sergeant John Archibald (1551096) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant James Frederick William Cullum (1330446) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Leonard William Dallimore (1318874) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Thomas Edward Dickins (626974) (RAF) (Flight Engineer)
Pilot Officer James Joseph Hewerdine (414137) (Pilot)
Sergeant Henry Herbert George Sickelmore (1586893) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant John Alan Walker (748494) (RAFVR) (Bomb Aimer)
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, 166/17/218