LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Howell Idris JONES
Service No: 413775
Born: Orange NSW, 3 October 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 13 September 1941
Unit: No. 90 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 90 Squadron Stirling aircraft LK380), Suffolk, 9 November 1943, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Llewellyn Jones and Muriel Evelyn Jones; husband of Mary Deborah Jones, of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Randwick NSW
Remembered: Memorial Tablet, St John’s Church, Beck Row, Suffolk
Remembered: Panel 193, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 9 November 1943 Stirling LK380 was detailed to carry a fighter affiliation with a Hurricane aircraft KW800. At 1135 hours near Shippea Hill Station about 20 miles north east of Cambridge, KW800 came in too close during an attack and collided with LK380. LK380 crashed and was buried in boggy ground. KW800’s pilot, Flight Sergeant Brown (RAF) baled out and was injured. All the crew members on board LK380 were killed and the unidentified remains of only four members were recovered.
The crew members of LK380 were:
Sergeant Gordon George Batten (1318361) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Edward Francis Davany (1034778) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Pilot Officer Leslie Mayberry Griffiths (160874) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator)
Flight Sergeant Howell Idris Jones (413775) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Morley Percival Loyst (R/184001) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Clifford Mitchell (138789) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Lieutenant Robert Young Rodger (131066) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Lees Smith (1450592) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Robert Wilson (1578403) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
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, 166/21/90