LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Reginald Stanislaus KELLY
Service No: 412970
Born: Gunnedah NSW, 3 June 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 15 August 1941
Unit: No. 78 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Breighton
Died: Air Operations: (No. 78 Squadron Halifax aircraft LW510), Bedfordshire, 24 March 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridgeshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Alban George Patrick and Mary Maud Kelly, of Ermington, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Gunnedah NSW
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Gunnedah Cenotaph, Gunnedah NSW
At 1859 hours on the night of 24 March 1944 Halifax LW510 took off from Breighton detailed to attack Berlin. The aircraft returned on one engine only to crash at Cranfield, Bedfordshire. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of LW510 were:
Sergeant Dennis Horace Albert Brignell (1800930) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Leslie James Edge (1324941) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Reginald Stanislaus Kelly (412970) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Harold James Neal (1523593) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Horatio Robert Nelson (641893) (RAF) (Rear Gunner)
Flight Sergeant William Harold Shields (1334523) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flying Officer Michael Arabin Wimberley (150168) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
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, 166/22/261
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line