LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Thomas Hastie KELSALL
Service No: 402509
Born: Warracknabeal VIC, 7 August 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 September 1940 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 26 Elementary Flying Training School (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 26 Elementary Flying Training School Tiger Moth aircraft T5478), Guinea Fowl, 7 July 1941, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Gweru Cemetery, Zimbabwe
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Thomas Hastie and Frances Dorothy Kelsall, of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Wagga Wagga NSW
Remembered: Panel 134, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On the 7th July 1941, Tiger Moth T5478 took off from Guinea Fowl and crashed seven miles north north west of Gwelo, killing both crew members.
The crew members of T5478 were:
Leading Aircraftman Thomas Hastie Kelsall (402509) (Student Pilot)
Pupil Pilot Peter Seiger Sowerby (103664) (SAAF) (Student 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, 163/130/68
Bibliography:
Winter, V.A. (Vincent Adams) Noble Six Hundred: the story of the Empire Air Training Scheme with special reference to Australians who trained in Southern Rhodesia, V.A. Winter Brighton VIC 3186, 1982