LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Alan William NOLAN
Service No: 412660
Born: Wollongong NSW, 14 February 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 July 1941
Unit: No. 44 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Dunholme Lodge
Died: Air Operations (No. 44 Squadron Lancaster aircraft EE185), France, 4 May 1944, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Dreux Communal Cemetery, Eure-et-Loir, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William and Ethel May Nolan, of Homebush, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 128, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Strathfield World War II Roll of Honour, Strathfield NSW
At 2156 hours on the night of 3 May 1944 Lancaster EE185 took off from Dunholme Lodge to bomb a military camp at Mailly-Le-Camp, France. The aircraft was shot down and crashed at 0118 hours on 4 May at Neron (Eure-le-Loir), 18 kms south east of Dreux, and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of EE815 were:
Flying Officer Eric George Blake (429027) (RNZAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Clifford John Boreham (1390575) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Eric Howard Charlton (1188067) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Ronald Derek Crook (1762053) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Patrick Higgins (1109234) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Kenneth Brice Milton (1394305) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Pilot Officer Alan William Nolan (412660) (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, 166/30/55
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line