LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Harold Gregory McKEAN
Service No: 400353
Born: Bathurst NSW, 10 February 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 August 1940 (at Melbourne VIC)
Unit: No. 150 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Snaith
Died: Air Operations: Bomber Command 1941-2 (No. 150 Squadron Wellington aircraft X9830), North West Europe, 21 February 1942, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William Andrew and Mary Teresa McKean, of Guildford, New South Wales, Australia.
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 112, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 126, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Borenore District War Memorial, Borenore NSW
At 2004 hours on 21 February 1942 Wellington X9830 took off from Snaith being one of 12 aircraft detailed to attack Darmstadt, Germany. The weather conditions were good. The aircraft did not return to base and efforts to trace the missing aircraft and crew after the war were unsuccessful.
The crew members of X9830 were:
Flying Officer James Geen Courtney (404092) (Observer)
Sergeant Thomas George Evans (947420) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Edward Lloyd Fiske (927796) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer John Bryan Green (45424) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant George Charlton Jobling (1054474) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Harold Gregory McKean (400353) (Air 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, 163/141/468
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line