LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Ormond Roy ROGERS
Service No: 24612
Born: Melbourne VIC, 6 January 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 31 January 1941 (at Brisbane QLD)
Unit: No. 49 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Fiskerton
Died: Air Operations: (No. 49 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ND536), Germany, 22 March 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Ernest Roy and Dorothy Ernestine Rogers, of Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 129, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1905 hours on the night of 22 March 1944 Lancaster ND536 took off from Fiskerton detailed to bomb Frankfurt, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. It was later established that the aircraft crashed and exploded at Ronnenburg presumably
due to enemy action. Ronnenburg is 21 miles north west of Kaiser Slaughtern, Germany. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of ND536 were:
Flight Sergeant Kenneth Anderson (1531860) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant William Frank Edwards (1804079) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Ronald Greig (1144831) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Clarence Peacock (989685) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Leslie John Phillips (1315084) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Pilot Officer Ormond Roy Rogers (24612) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Herbert Whiteley (1004530) (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, 166/36/227