LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Robert Thomas HEWETSON
Service No: 413997
Born: Casino NSW, 26 September 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 10 October 1941
Unit: No. 1572 Gunnery Flight, St Thomas Mount, Madras
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 1572 Gunnery Flight Vultee Vengeance aircraft AN692), India, 7 February 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Madras War Cemetery, Chennai, India
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William James Hewetson and Isabella Constance Hewetson, of Newport Beach, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 123, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Mallanganee Memorial Park, Mallanganee NSW
At 1015 hours on 7 February 1944 Vultee Vengeance AN692 crashed at Cattack, Orissa, while flying in a thunderstorm and endeavouring to make a forced landing in a paddy field. Flight Sergeant Hewetson, flying solo, was killed in the crash.
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, 166/17/478
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line