LEST WE FORGET
Warrant Officer Ian TRELOAR
Service No: 401551
Born: Box Hill VIC, 18 June 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 28 February 1941
Unit: No. 112 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 112 Squadron Kittyhawk aircraft FR849), Sicily, 7 August 1943, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Catania War Cemetery, Sicily
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Lt.-Col. John Linton Treloar and Clarissa Maude Weir Treloar, of Canterbury, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Canterbury VIC
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 7 August 1943 Kittyhawk FR849 was one of 12 aircraft from the Squadron detailed to carry out an armed reconnaissance of various connecting roads in the battle area. The formation took off from Agnonolg, Sicily, at 1120 hours. During the reconnaissance some heavy to light anti-aircraft fire was encountered. It is not known if FR849 was hit but the aircraft was seen by the other aircraft flying south at 4,000 feet and below the rest of the formation. The aircraft failed to return to base. A missing Research and Enquiry team later reported “the aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire and Warrant Officer Treloar was killed in the crash.”
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, 166/40/64
Bibliography:
Ilbery, P.L.T. (Peter Leslie Thomas) (422957) Hatching an Air Force: 2SFTS, 5SFTS, 1BFTS Uranquinty and Wagga Wagga, Banner Books Maryborough QLD 4650, 2002