LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Albert Edward TYNE
Service No: 423359
Born: Glebe NSW, 8 May 1911
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 June 1942
Unit: No. 9 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Bardney
Died: Air Operations: (No. 9 Squadron Lancaster aircraft LM528), France, 10 May 1944, Aged 33 Years
Buried: Forest-sur-Marque Communal Cemetery, Nord, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William and Lucy Tyne; husband of Beatrice May Tyne, of Penshurst, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Penshurst NSW
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2210 hours on the night of 10 May 1944 Lancaster LM528 took off from Bardney to attack railway yards at Lille, France. The crew were on their first sortie after arriving from No. 51 Base Unit on 3 May 1944. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return from the mission. Post war it was established that the aircraft exploded in flight east of the aiming point and all the crew members had been killed.
The crew members of LM528 were:
Flying Officer Arthur Bennett (151351) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flying Officer Hubert Edwin Botting (156341) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant James Henry Butler (1593289) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Pilot Officer Hugh Donald Campbell (414761) (Pilot)
Sergeant Elliott Fullerton (2204572) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Jack William Logg Parker (1174732) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Albert Edward Tyne (423359) (Bomb Aimer)
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, 166/40/190