LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Robert Bruce MEIKLEJOHN
Service No: 413222
Born: Wagga Wagga NSW, 26 October 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 August 1941
Unit: No. 7 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Oakington
Died: Air Operations: (No. 7 Squadron Stirling aircraft EF366), Belgium, 22 June 1943, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Heverlee War Cemetery, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert George and Lily Meiklejohn, of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Victory Memorial Gardens Cenotaph, Wagga Wagga NSW
At 0007 hours on the morning of 22 June 1943 Stirling EF366 took off from Oakington detailed to bomb Krefeld, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed near Hamout, Belgium. Two crew members were killed and the other five taken prisoner.
The crew members of EF366 were:
Flight Sergeant E A Brown (411608) (RNZAF) PoW
Sergeant F W Cole (1156287) (RAFVR) PoW
Sergeant L E Ellingham (1331718) (RAFVR) PoW
Sergeant FR Hugo (1339829) (RAFVR) PoW
Sergeant J Kilfoyle (1456893) (RAFVR) PoW
Flying Officer Robert Bruce Meiklejohn (413222) (Pilot)
Pilot Officer Charles Henry Gerrard Redwood (414679) (RNZAF)
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, 166/27/153
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line