LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Ronald Patrick Arthur McKILLOP
Service No: 413233
Born: Young NSW, 22 March 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 August 1941
Unit: No. 245 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 245 Squadron Typhoon aircraft JP593), off the French Coast, 30 December 1943, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. McKillop, of Young, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 191, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 126, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Young Soldiers Memorial Clock Tower and Memorial Boards, Young NSW
On a Ramrod sortie on 30 December 1943, Pilot Officer McKillop flying Typhoon JP593 baled out west of Le Tourquet, France and he was reported missing.
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
Franks, Norman L R, Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 2 Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1942-1943, Midland Publishing UK, 1998
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9300, MCKILLOP R P A
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line