LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Wilfred George MOXEY
Service No: 421073
Born: Eastwood NSW, 29 June 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 7 December 1941
Unit: No. 106 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Metheringham
Died: Air Operations: (No. 106 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ND585), Belgium, 31 March 1944, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Hotton War Cemetery, Hotton Luxembourg, Belgium
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Oliver Esmond and Isabel Moxey, of Miranda, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2215 hours on the night of 30 March 1944 Lancaster ND585 took off from Metheringham detailed to bomb Nuremburg, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. While making for base the aircraft drifted north of its track and was believed to have been shot down by a night fighter. It crashed at the Belgian village of Villiers-Deux-Eglise (Namur), 4 kms west south west of Philippeville, and 20 miles south west of Namur.
All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of ND585 were:
Sergeant John Alfred Harris (J/85791) (RCAF) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Julian Pelham MacKilligin (1804016) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner) Aged 18 Years
Sergeant Cecil Arthur William Matthews (1602064) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Pilot Officer Wilfred George Moxey (421073) (Pilot)
Sergeant Herbert Wilfred Richardson (1376495) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Frank Thompson (1503915) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Edward Harold Woods (906385) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
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, 166/28/270