LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Samuel John TRIMBLE
Service No: 403204
Born: Orange NSW, 31 March 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 11 December 1940
Unit: No. 207 Squadron (RAF), RAF Spilsby, Lincolnshire
Died: Air Operations: (No. 207 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ME 667), Germany, 6 October 1944, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Hamburg Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Frederick Thomas Trimble and Grace Winifred Trimble.
Roll of Honour: Roseville NSW
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Roseville War Memorial, Roseville NSW
Lancaster ME 667 took off from RAF Spilsby at 1730 hours on the night of 6/7th October 1944, detailed to bomb Bremen, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at 2032 hours at Lehester Deich, a small hamlet 10 kms north east from Bremen, and all the crew were killed.
The crew members of ME 667 were:
Pilot Officer Douglas Roy Abell (417773) (Pilot)
Pilot Officer John Mervyn Felgate (436371) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Pilot Officer William Walter Furse (115476) (Rear Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Clifford Henry Houghton (1620799) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Thomas Ronald Maravan-Williams (1579978) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flying Officer John Hartley Middleton (423153) (Pilot)
Sergeant Gordon Arthur Payne (187217) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Pilot Officer Samuel John Trimble (403204) (Wireless Air Gunner)
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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705,166/40/268