LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Lloyd Charles Alexander TAYLOR
Service No: 425812
Born: Brisbane QLD, 10 September 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 27 April 1942
Unit: No. 514 Squadron, RAF Station Waterbeach
Died: Air Operations: (No. 514 Squadron Lancaster aircraft LL652), Belgium, 28 May 1944, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Geraardsbergen Communal Cemetery, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Charles and Ada Taylor; husband of Elsie Miriam Edna Taylor, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 0031 hours on the morning of 28th May 1944, Lancaster LL652 took off from Waterbeach detailed to attack Aachen, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. A Missing Research and Enquiry team later reported “The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Schendelbeke, which is 21 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium.”
All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of LL652 were:
Sergeant Richard Gill (2210653) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer Frederick Brearley Hill (158285) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Pilot Officer Stanley William Newman (422083) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Alan Roderick (568729) (RAF) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Lieutenant Lloyd Charles Alexander Taylor (425812) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Cecil Keith Thomas (426708) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant James Frederick Vincent (1483346) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
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, 166/39/287