LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Peter Matthew OLEINIKOFF
Service No: 425544
Born: Suchun, Siberia, 5 October 1910
Enlisted in the RAAF: 28 March 1942 (at Brisbane QLD)
Unit: No. 575 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Breadwell
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 575 Squadron Dakota aircraft KG630), Sussex, 6 February 1945, Aged 34 Years
Buried: Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey UK
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Mathew and Doris Oleinikoff; husband of Margaret Mary Oleinikoff, of Paddington, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 128, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 6 February 1945, Dakota KG630 took off from Breadwell on an operational flight and crashed at 1100 hours, near Folkington, Sussex, while flying in low cloud, and all on board were killed.
The crew members were:
Flight Sergeant Edgar Alan Barsby (434121) (Second Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Ronald Arthur Brock (R/218221) (RCAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Kenneth Gilbert Forseth (J/47421) (RCAF) (Navigator)
Pilot Officer Peter Matthew Oleinikoff (425544) (Pilot)
The passengers were:
Leading Aircraftman Frank Bainbridge (1045758) (RAFVR)
Leading Aircraftman Ronald Grayham Baldry (1724979) (RAFVR)
Leading Aircraftman Samuel Arthur Bamber (1019395) (RAFVR)
Corporal William George Blair (411154) (RNZAF)
Corporal Edwin Bruce Chadd (1194880) (RAFVR)
Corporal David Cooper (641383) (RAF)
Flying Officer Edward William Curtis (158453) (RAFVR)
Leading Aircraftman William Daniel Davies (1470528) (RAFVR)
Leading Aircraftman Thomas Henry Floody (1542307) (RAFVR)
Corporal Colin Gibson (1515987) (RAFVR)
Corporal Gerald Ernest Nelson Ronald Lee (1258189) (RAFVR)
Leading Aircraftman Jack Neale (1880131) (RAFVR)
Leading Aircraftman Woolf Nerden (1440455) (RAFVR)
Pilot Officer Colin Alexander Rattay (189155) (RAFVR)
Leading Aircraftman Sydney MacKenzie Smith (R/167365) (RCAF)
Leading Aircraftman Robert Smith (1531489) (RAFVR)
Leading Aircraftman George Stevens (1435018) (RAFVR)
Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Dowler Wilkes (1577928) (RAFVR)
Leading Aircraftman George Wilson (1481091) (RAFVR)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/31/321