LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Philip MYERSON
Service No: 432398
Born: Elizabeth Bay NSW, 24 August 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 9 December 1942
Unit: No. 408 Squadron (RCAF), RAF Station Linton-on-Ouse
Died: Air Operations (No. 408 Squadron Halifax aircraft NP476), Germany, 29 January 1945, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bad Tolz, Bayern, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Emanuel and Elsie Myerson, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 133, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: The Great Synagogue World War 2 Roll of Honour, Sydney NSW
Remembered: The Great Synagogue Roll of Honour Book, Sydney NSW
At 1943 hours on the night of 28/29 January 1945, Halifax NP746 took off from Linton-on-Ouse, detailed to bomb Stuttgart, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft was lost over Germany with six crew members killed and one captured.
The crew members of NP476 were:
Pilot Officer Leslie John Collinson (C/95228) (RCAF) (Flight Engineer)
Flying Officer Thomas Bruce Little (J/40372) (RCAF) (Navigator)
Flying Officer H T McGovern (J/26214) (RCAF) (Air Bomber) PoW
Pilot Officer Philip Myerson (432398) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Thomas Phillip Quinn (J/93944) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Robert Lloyd Siewert (J/93945) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Richard MacMillan Wallis (J/28593) (RCAF) (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, 166/28/507
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line