LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Trevor Sutherland POWE
Service No: 423320
Born: Willoughby NSW, 16 October 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 June 1942
Unit: No. 171 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station North Creake
Died: Air Operations: (No. 171 Squadron Halifax aircraft NA674), Germany, 9 December 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Rheinberg War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Sutherland Powe and Dorothy Powe, of Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Willoughby NSW
Remembered: Panel 129, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: St Stephen’s Church Willoughby Book of Remembrance, Willoughby NSW
Halifax NA674 took off from RAF North Creake at 1735 hours on the night of 9 December 1944, detailed to dispense window (radar jamming aluminium strips) in the direction of Koblenz, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at Kennfus, some 12 kms south west of Cochem on the Mosel, and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of NA674 were:
Flight Sergeant Stanley Albert Brown (1399174) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Thomas Anthony Victor Brown (1549104) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant John James Villiers Higgins (1514419) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant John Herbert Hinton (1893290) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Lieutenant John Kirkpatrick DFC (143805) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Stanley James Moore (432254) (Air Bomber)
Pilot Officer Trevor Sutherland Powe (423320) (Pilot)
Sergeant Henry Stanton (3010595) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
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, 166/33/265
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line