LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Theodore Anton KROME
Service No: 403428
Born: Walkerville SA, 2 February 1913
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 January 1941 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 14 Operational Training Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 14 Operational Training Unit Hampden aircraft AD848), Yorkshire, 29 June 1942, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Hatfield (Woodhouse) Cemetery, Yorkshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Heidrich and Clara Krome; husband of Mary Ann Krome, of West Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Wollongong NSW
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 29th June 1942 Hampden AD848 took off from RAF Cottesmore, for a night cross country training exercise. The aircraft dived almost vertically and crashed at 2343 hours between Moorends and Thorne, about 11 miles north-east from Doncaster, Yorkshire. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of AD848 were:
Sergeant Theodore Anton Krome (403428) (Pilot)
Sergeant Ralph O’Keefe (798640) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Wallace Alan Robson (411052) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Frederick Francis Andrew Wood (J/8619) (RCAF) (Navigator)
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, 163/134/21