LEST WE FORGET
Warrant Officer Jack Murray TEW
Service No: 404725
Born: Toowoomba QLD, 13 June 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 8 November 1940
Unit: No. 1688 Bomber (Defence) Training Flight (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 1688 Bomber (Defence) Training Flight Hurricane aircraft LF426), Norfolk, 11 March 1944, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridgeshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Alfred Murray Tew and Rose Marian Tew, of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia; husband of Lesley Joy Tew, of Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Toowoomba QLD
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 11 March 1944, Warrant Officer Tew in Hurricane LF426 took off from Newmarket and shortly before 1430 hours it was seen to join in formation with an Oxford trainer. It then seemed that the Hurricane broke off, banked steeply, and the Pilot lost control and failed to recover before the aircraft hit the ground and burst into flames near Weltmore Farm in Norfolk. Warrant Officer Tew was killed.
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, 166/39/243