LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Ian Ross INGRAM
Service No: 403343
Born: Monifieth, Scotland, 12 September 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 January 1941 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 225 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 225 Squadron Hurricane aircraft HL887), Tunisia, 27 November 1942, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Bone War Cemetery, Annaba, Algeria
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Adam and Jessie Jane Ingram, of Forrest, Canberra, Australia
Roll of Honour: Canberra ACT
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Hurricane HL887 flown by Flying Officer Ingram crashed on 27 November 1942 and he was killed. HL887 left Sour-el-Arba in the morning detailed to act as a weaver escort to Flight Lieutenant Stewart on a tactical reconnaissance. At 1000 hours when approximately 30 miles east of Tabarka, an enemy dive-bombing raid escorted by fighters was encountered and both aircraft were attacked by four Me109s. Stewart lost touch with Ingram who failed to return to base after the encounter. It was presumed that Flying Officer Ingram had been shot down by the Me109s.
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, 163/37/22