LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Alan Roy SINGLE
Service No: 413144
Born: Wingham NSW, 29 March 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 August 1941
Unit: No. 75 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Mepal
Died: Air Operations: (No. 75 Squadron Stirling aircraft LJ453), Germany, 22 November 1943, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Rheinberg War Cemetery, Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William and Sarah Jane Single; husband of Phyllis Mary Single, of Campsie, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Taree NSW
Remembered: Panel 130, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Taree World War II and Post War Memorials, Taree NSW
At 1714 hours on the night of 22 November 1943, Stirling LJ453 took off from Mepal detailed to bomb Berlin. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed between Gemmerich and Dolberg, 6kms south south east of Ahlen. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of LJ453 were:
Flight Sergeant Arthur George Bernard (424964) (RNZAF) (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer Jack Brothwell (135042) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Ivor George Holbrook (937367) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Victor Stanley Hughes (1796312) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Flight Sergeant John Edward Stanley Margetts (422665) (RNZAF) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant Alan Roy Single (413144) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Eric Richmond Whittington (416030) (RNZAF) (Wireless 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, 166/371/251
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line