LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Hector William ROSS
Service No: 1353
Born: 18 February 1896, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAAF: 8 July 1940 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 1 Bombing and Gunnery School, Evans Head NSW
Died: Aircraft Accident (No.1 Bombing and Gunnery School Battle aircraft R4006), near Exeter NSW, 11 February 1942, Aged 44 Years
Buried: Rookwood Necropolis, Sydney, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Husband of Elizabeth Helen Ross, of Double Bay
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: New South Wales Garden of Remembrance, Rookwood NSW
Remembered: Panel 116, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Flight Lieutenant Ross previously serves in the Australian Flying Corps and the Citizen Air Force.
At 1715 hours on 11 February 1942, Fairey Battle R4006 flown solo by Flight Lieutenant Ross crashed four miles south south east of Exeter, New South Wales and he was killed. The aircraft was on a ferry flight to Evans Head via Richmond, and it crashed and burned in mountains possibly due to the bad weather. The wreckage was located in 1995.
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
Cutlack, F.M. (Frederic Morley) The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War 1914-8, Angus and Robertson Ltd Sydney, 1941
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/55/95