LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Francis Edward SORENSEN
Service No: 408785
Born: Koondrook VIC, 31 December 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 23 May 1941
Unit: No. 45 Group (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 45 Group Mosquito aircraft KB536), Prince Edward Island, 10 December 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Emil Dannemande and May Sorensen; husband of Iris Marion Sorensen, of Peterborough, Ontario
Roll of Honour: Tragowel VIC
Remembered: Panel 3, Column 5, Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada
Remembered: Panel 130, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 10 December 1944 Mosquito KB536 took off from RCAF Station Summerside, for a ferry flight to the UK. Conditions of low visibility prevailed at take-off. The aircraft was last heard from shortly after take off and then nothing. Subsequent searches located wreckage of the aircraft in shallow water about 12 miles south of Summerside, and a quarter of a mile off shore from Sea Cow Head. In 1949 it was recorded that the missing crew members had lost their lives at sea.
The crew members of KN536 were:
Sub-Lieutenant Sigmund Breck (Pilot) (Royal Norwegian Air Force)
Flying Officer Francis Edward Sorensen (408785) (Navigator/Wireless Operator)
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, 166/38/830