LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Robert Browning McCORMACK
Service No: 422631
Born: Sydney NSW, 27 May 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 May 1942
Unit: No. 90 Squadron (RAF), RAF Tuddenham, Suffolk
Died: Air Operations: (No. 90 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ME 852), Germany, 13 August 1944, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert and Jeanetta Browning McCormack, of Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia.
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 126, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Lancaster ME 852 took off from RAF Tuddenham at 2146 hours on the night of 12/13th August 1944, detailed to carry out a raid on Brunswick, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base The aircraft crashed and exploded in a forest at Becklingen and all the crew were killed.
The crew members of ME 852 were:
Flying Officer Charles Stewart Bogle (427289) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Ronald Sutton Camier (419700) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Cyril Stanley Gilbert (525662) (RAF) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant John Charles Hines (1397984) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Percy William Jones (1622133) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Robert Browning McCormack (422631) (Navigator)
Sergeant Francis Myers (2209603) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705,166/26/545