LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Alexander MIGNER
Service No: 426961
Born: Gympie QLD, 15 May 1912
Enlisted in the RAAF: 15 August 1942 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 26 Operational Training Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 26 Operational Training Unit Wellington aircraft BK491), Buckinghamshire, 30 December 1943, Aged 31 Years
Buried: Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, Oxfordshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert and Lukeria Migner; husband of Olive Adele Marjorie Migner, of Enfield, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Enfield NSW
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: St Thomas’ Anglican Church WW2 Honour Roll, Enfield NSW
At 1854 hours on 30 December 1943, Wellington BK491 took off from RAF Little Horwood for a night flying training exercise. At 1855 hours the aircraft banked steeply and crashed at North End Farm near Thornborough, four miles or so north-west of the airfield. All four crew members were killed.
The crew members of BK491 were:
Sergeant John Edward Lane (1875446) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Alexander Migner (426961) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Alfred Arthur Sadler (545242) (RAF) (Navigator)
Warrant Officer Kenneth Guilfoyle Tucker (405001) (RNZAF) (Pilot)
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, 166/27/323
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line