LEST WE FORGET

Pilot Officer Donald William MASON

Service No: 413220
Born: Wagga Wagga NSW, 28 September 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 August 1941
Unit: No. 198 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 198 Squadron Typhoon aircraft MN132), France, 18 June 1944, Aged 25 Years
Buried: St Charles De Percy War Cemetery, Calvados, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Norman Hector and Myra Mason; husband of Annie Sevester Mason, of Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Orange NSW
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT

On an armed reconnaissance over the battle area on 18 June 1944, Typhoon MN132 flown by Pilot Officer Mason encountered anti-aircraft fire and the aircraft crashed near Boulon killing him.

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
Franks, Norman L R, Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 3 Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1944-1945, Midland Publishing UK, 2000
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/27/475

Book Now Book Now