LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Frank Blunden REID
Service No: 402137
Born: Wellington NSW, 30 September 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 27 May 1940
Unit: No. 3 Squadron
Died: Air Operations: (No. 3 Squadron Kittyhawk aircraft AK605), Egypt-Libya border area, 15 February 1942, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Donald Edwin and Cecelia Mary Reid, of Artarmon, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Roseville NSW
Remembered: Panel 98, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Roseville Uniting Church Honour Roll – World War II, Roseville NSW
On 15 February 1942, Kittyhawk AK605 flown by Sergeant Reid took off at 1300 hours in a scramble from a standby with other Kittyhawks to intercept enemy aircraft over Gambut Landing Ground. While climbing, AK605 was attacked from above by an unseen Me109F and shot down in flames 5 miles south west of the Landing Ground.
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, 163/156/116
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line
Bibliography:
Ilbery, P.L.T. (Peter Leslie Thomas) (422957) Hatching an Air Force: 2SFTS, 5SFTS, 1BFTS Uranquinty and Wagga Wagga, Banner Books Maryborough QLD 4650, 2002