LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Harris Lewington MAZENGARB
Service No: 402667
Born: Watson’s Bay NSW, 7 December 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 September 1940
Unit: No. 83 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Wyton
Died: Air Operations: (No. 83 Squadron Lancaster aircraft W4104), 11 September 1942, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Reginald Muller Mazengarb and Alice Winifred Mazengarb, of Cammeray, New South Wales. Australia
Roll of Honour: Cammeray NSW
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2036 hours on the night of 10 September 1942 Lancaster W4104 took off from Wyton detailed to bomb Dusseldorf, Germany. The planned route was Orford Ness, Walcheren and thence direct to the target. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at Neuss and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of W4104 were:
Flight Sergeant Donald John Calderwood (R/61828) (RCAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Albert George Cook (1293852) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Flying Officer Harris Lewington Mazengarb (402667) (Navigator)
Flying Officer John Gordon McDonald (J/5059) (RCAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant Graham George Millard (1179058) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Phillip William Arthur Samwell (1195426) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Harry Raeburn Watson (R/98140) (RCAF) (Rear 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 A705, 163/44/169