LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Kenneth Rowe WARREN
Service No: 410765
Born: Castlemaine VIC, 24 July 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 31 January 1942
Unit: No. 106 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Metheringham
Died: Air Operations: (No. 106 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ND870), France, 8 May 1944, Aged 20 Years
Buried: St Doulchard Communal Cemetery, Cher, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Stanley Gordon and Bessie Wilhemina Victoria Warren, of Harcourt, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Harcourt VIC
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2200 hours on the night of 7 May 1944 Lancaster ND870 took off from Metheringham detailed to bomb an ammunition dump at Salbris, France. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at St Doulchard (Cher), 2 kms north west of Bourges, and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of ND870 were:
Flight Sergeant William Currie (1553148) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flying Officer James Guile (151891) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant William Richard Kennedy (1892943) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Ernest Long (1620472) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant Malcolm Charles Sewell (1336329) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Reginald Shipley (1684534) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Pilot Officer Kenneth Rowe Warren (401765) (Pilot)
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, 166/43/658