LEST WE FORGET

Pilot Officer Albert James Verdun LOCKLEY

Service No: 411154
Born: Bonnyrigg NSW, 4 March 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 April 1941
Unit: No. 13 Squadron
Died: Air Operations: (No. 13 Squadron Hudson aircraft A16-137), raid on Koepang, 14 April 1942, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert and Mary Jane Lockley; husband of Winifred Schiela Lockley, of Collaroy, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 7, Northern Territory Memorial, Adelaide River NT
Remembered: Panel 100, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Manly ANZAC War Memorial, Manly NSW

On 14 April 1942, Hudson A16-137 failed to return from a bombing raid on Koepang. The crew members were:

Pilot Officer Albert James Verdun Lockley (411154) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Orchard (408663) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Patrick Goulston Taylor (401158) (Pilot)
Sergeant Donald Thomas Thomson (408601) (Wireless Air Gunner)

References:

Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/43/65
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line

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