LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Arthur Norman INGLES
Service No: 420888
Born: Katoomba NSW, 6 April 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 December 1941
Unit: No. 156 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Warboys
Died: Air Operations: (No. 156 Squadron Lancaster aircraft JA941), Germany, 25 February 1944, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bad Tolz, Bayern, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Norman and Vera Lillian Ingles, of Waitara, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Hornsby NSW
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1903 hours on the night of 25 February 1944 Lancaster JA941 took off from Warboys detailed to bomb Augsburg, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft was shot down at 19,000 feet by a night fighter, and believed to have crashed in the vicinity of Lahr/Schwarzwald. Five of the crew members were killed two became Prisoners of War.
The crew members of JA941 were:
Sergeant Crawford McKerrow Hossack (1570479) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Arthur Norman Ingles (420888) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant William Harold Johnson (1590138) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Pilot Officer W H Liddiard (682900) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner) PoW
Flight Sergeant Beresford Bruce Millen (1289479) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Benjamin Samuel Reynolds (1335477) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant J A Yeomans (1439222) (RAFVR) (Navigator) PoW
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, 166/19/43