LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Albert TINDALL
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
RAF Service No: 43294 (RAF)
Born: Location, Date unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: 1939
Unit: No. 115 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Marham
Died: Air Operations: (No. 115 Squadron Wellington IC aircraft T2520), Wales, 9 December 1940, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Llantwit Major Cemetery, Wales
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Stafford Wreghitt Tindall and Rachael May Tindall, of Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Pilot Officer Tindall was an Australian Cadet accepted for training by the RAF who embarked for the UK on 12 August 1939.
Wellington T2520 took off from Marham at 1715 hours on 8 December 1940 to attack Bordeaux, France. The aircraft strayed from track on the return flight and crashed into a hill at Cefn-y-strad near Tredegar, Glamorgan, at 0312 hours on 9 December 1940.
The crew members of T2520 were:
Sergeant Reginald Brown (40913) (RNZAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Hylton Daniel Ellis (523372) (RAF) (Observer)
Sergeant Stanley Gordon Howard (966313) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant David Mills (748521) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Pilot Officer Albert Tindall (43294) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant David Ernest Wallace (906336) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Chorley, W.R. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 1 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1939-1940, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1992
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Newton, Dennis A Few of the Few: Australians and the Battle of Britain, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT 2600, 1990