LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Ian Wingate TERRY
From Australia serving in the Royal New Zealand Air Force
Service No: 40666 (RNZAF)
Born: Location, Date unavailable
Enlisted in the RNZAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 206 Squadron (RAF), Chivenor
Died: Air Operations: (No. 206 Squadron Hudson aircraft AM837), France, 21 December 1941, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Nantes (Pont-du-Cens) Communal Cemetery, Loire-Atlantique, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Edgar and Daisy Terry, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: University of Sydney World War II Roll of Honour, Camperdown NSW
Brother of Flight Lieutenant Brian Rouse Terry DFC (128433) (RAFVR)
At 1530 hours, Hudson AM837 took off for a raid on an oil refinery at Donges, France, but failed to return.
The crew members of AM837 were:
Sergeant James William Durrant (633261) (RAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Errington Douglas Rawes (63801) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Lieutenant Ian Wingate Terry (40666) (RNZAF) (Navigator)
Sergeant Ronald Leslie Watts (1210042) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
References:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
McNeill, Ross RAF Coastal Command Loses of the Second World War Volume 1 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1939-1941, Midland Publications UK, 2003
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/58/55
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line