LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Keith Roland LINDENBERG
Service No: 425326
Born: Pittsworth QLD, 4 July 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 1 February 1942
Unit: No. 90 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Tuddenham
Died: Air Operations: (No. 90 Squadron Stirling aircraft EF443), North West Europe, 29 January 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Oswald Alfred and Violet Annabel Lindenberg, of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Toowoomba QLD
Remembered: Panel 261, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1832 hours on the night of 28 January 1944 Stirling EF443 took off from Tuddenham to carry out a mine laying operation in Kiel Bay, Germany. Nothing further was heard of the aircraft or crew after take-off. In 1948 there being no trace of the aircraft or crew it was concluded the crew were lost at sea.
The crew members of EF443 were:
Sergeant Vincent Dooley (977328) (RAFVR) (Mid-Upper Gunner)
Pilot Officer John Douglas Greenwood (420619) (Pilot)
Sergeant Kenneth Lovell Harding (1865691) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Gordon Reginald Holland (1458358) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Keith Roland Lindenberg (425326) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Gordon Royston (1452441) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant John Patrick Seddon (963130) (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, 166/24/372