LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Lance Raymond McMONAGLE
Service No: 421666
Born: 10 January 1920, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAAF: date unavailable
Unit: No. 49 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Fiskerton
Died: Air Operations: (No. 49 Squadron Lancaster aircraft PB429), Germany, 6 October 1944, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Becklingen War Cemetery, Soltau, Niedersachsen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Francis Borscech McMonagle and Ruby Pearl McMonagle, of Woollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 126, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: NSW Department of Education Teachers and Trainees WW2 Honour Roll, Sydney NSW
At 1717 hours on the night of 6 October 1944 Lancaster PB429 took off from Fiskerton detailed to bomb Bremen, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. At 2011 PB429 crashed hours at Leuchtrenburg Larnhorst on the east side of Aumund-Hammersbech, Germany. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of PB429 were:
Flying Officer Cyril Beatson (15244) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flying Officer Eric Bourton (153873) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Denis Harrison (1590368) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flying Officer James Charles King (152912) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flying Officer Lance Raymond McMonagle (421666) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer John William Murray (432423) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant Andrew Stephen (1572098) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper 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, 166/26/613
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line