LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Phillip Frederick MacLAREN
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 41191 (RAF)
Born: Perth WA, 1915
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 218 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 218 Squadron Wellington aircraft P9207), Norfolk, 15 January 1941, Age unavailable
Buried: Marham (Holy Trinity) Churchyard, Norfolk
CWGC Additional Information: No additional information
Roll of Honour: Unknown
On 15 January 1941 Wellington P9207 crashed 1155 between Wormegay and Pentney, some 6 miles south east of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, at 1155 hours. Flying Officer MacLaren was making his first solo flight in a Wellington bomber.
References:
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 2 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1941, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1993
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Newton, Dennis First Impact, Banner Books, Maryborough QLD 4650, 1997
WA Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages on Line