LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Allan LORD
Service No: 420818
Born: Hamilton NSW, 17 January 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 5 December 1941
Unit: No. 46 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 46 Squadron Beaufighter aircraft MM906), Greece, 7 June 1944, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Rhodes War Cemetery, Rhodes, Greece
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Henry and Lilian Maud Ethel Lord, of Glasgow, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Hamilton NSW
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On the night of 7 June 1944 Beaufighter MM906 was engaged in night intruder operations over Rhodes and Cosocos. The aircraft failed to return to base from the mission. The last position recorded was 32.48N 29.29E at 1908 hours when the aircraft was over the Mediterranean Sea north of Alexandria, and the plane was due back at 2330 hours. Another aircraft on the same mission sighted what he reported to be an aircraft burning on the ground on Kos Island with a number of vehicles in the vicinity. It was thought that this was probably the missing aircraft MM906.
The crew members of MM906 were:
Sergeant Thomas Leslie Dawes (1397164) (RAFVR) (Navigator/Wireless)
Flight Sergeant Allan Lord (420818) (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, 166/25/163