LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Angus Reginald TELFORD
Service No: 437884
Born: Mount Gambier SA, 3 March 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 3 April 1943
Unit: No. 30 Operational Training Unit (RAF), RAF Hixon, Staffordshire
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 30 Operational Training Unit Wellington aircraft MF968), Irish Sea, 12 October 1944, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James Sinton Telford and Daisy Beatrice Telford, of Mount Barker, South Australia.
Roll of Honour: Mount Gambier SA
Remembered: Panel 262, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
Wellington MF968 of No 30 Operational Training Unit RAF took off from RAF Seighford satellite aerodrome at 0300 hours on 12 October 1944, on a night cross country exercise. Approximately 30 minutes after take off the first position report was received from the aircraft, but after that nothing was heard and MF968 did not return to base. The route of the exercise was over the Cardigan Bay area. In 1949 it was recorded that the missing crew had lost their lives at sea.
The crew members of MF968 were:
Warrant Officer John Richardson Gibson (426094) (Navigator)
Sergeant Hubert Glasper (1699735) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Ronald George Kingsley (419758) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant William Mathew Schafer (433034) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Angus Reginald Telford (437884) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Douglas John White (427966) (Pilot)
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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/39/373