LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Harry Wallace TINDLEY
Service No: 400546
Born: Kew VIC, 10 March 1910
Enlisted in the RAAF: 15 September 1940
Unit: Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit
Died: Aircraft Accident (Wellington aircraft Z9040), off the English Coast, 7 January 1942, Aged 31 Years
Buried: Illogan (St Illogan) Churchyard, Cornwall
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Wallace and Ethel Amelia Tindley; husband of Eunice Mary Tindley, of Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Soon after leaving RAF St Eval in transit to the Middle East, Wellington Z9040 crashed into the sea near Portreath, Cornwall, at 0430 hours on 7 January 1942.
Three crew members of Z9040 were:
Sergeant Myles David Gould (1377262) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Alan John Griffiths (1069574) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Leslie Jennings (922924) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Lockhart (927082) (RAFVR) (Pilot) Safe
Sergeant Arthur Thompson Rene Renshaw (943630) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Harry Wallace Tindley (400546) (Observer)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/167/23