LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant George Selwyn LONG-INNES
Service No: 402293
Born: Sydney NSW, 15 May 1907
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 July 1940
Unit: No. 12 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Binbrook, Lincolnshire
Died: Air Operations: (No. 12 Squadron Wellington aircraft W5440), Germany, 26 February 1942, Aged 34 Years
Buried: Kiel War Cemetery, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of the Hon. Mr. Justice Reginald Heath Long-Innes and Mary Louise Long-Innes, of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Wellington W5440 took off from Binbrook on the night of 25/26 February 1942 to bomb Kiel, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. It was later learned that the aircraft had crashed in the target area and all the crew members had been killed.
The crew members of W5440 were:
Pilot Officer Edward Akeroyd Bairstow (64907) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Rupert Vivian Pereira Ennor (1199110) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant George Edward Fox (1204720) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant George Selwyn Long-Innes (402293) (Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Eric Tunnington (102614) (RAFVR) (Observer)
Sergeant Frederick John Wakefield (1180917) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
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 A9301 Barcode 5522832