LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant William David MORGAN
Service No: 422636
Born: Wagga Wagga NSW, 14 June 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 May 1942
Unit: No. 51 Operational Training Unit (RAF), Advanced Training Squadron, RAF Station Twinwoods Farm, Bedfordshire
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 51 Operational Training Unit Beaufighter aircraft 2069), Northamptonshire, 24 March 1944, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridgeshire
CWGC Additional Information: on of David Thomas Morgan and Lucinda Alice Morgan, of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Wagga Wagga NSW
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Victory Memorial Gardens Cenotaph, Wagga Wagga NSW
Remembered: NSW Department of Education Teachers and Trainees WW2 Honour Roll, sydney NSW
On 24 March 1944, Beaufighter 2069 took off from RAF Station Twinwoods Farm and crashed at 1447 hours at Easton Mendit, Northamptonshire. Both the crew members were killed and there were indications that the aircraft was low flying, hit a tree top, crashed and burned.
The crew members of Beaufighter 2069 were:
Flight Sergeant William David Morgan (422636) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant John Henry Roberts (421938) (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, 166/28/266
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line