LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Robert WATSON
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 1822226
Born: Date, Location Unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date Unavailable
Unit: No. 15 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Mildenhall
Died: Air Operations: (No. 15 Squadron Lancaster I aircraft LL801), France, 28 April 1944, Aged 19 Years
Buried: Schoenau Churchyard, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Thomas F Watson and Janet Watson, of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Lancaster LL801 took off from Mildenhall at 2144 hours to attack Friedrichshafen. The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Schoenau, some 16 km west north west of Selestat. Four crew members were killed, two taken prisoner and one evaded capture.
The crew members of LL801 were:
Sergeant Alfred Beazley Long (1805067) (RAFVR) PoW
Flight Sergeant Wilbert Cully (1348049) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant John Gordon Eastman (1586348) (RAFVR) (Observer)
Flight Sergeant Arthur Mathews (1387793) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant George Mead (1388193) (RAFVR) PoW
Flight Lieutenant Leonard Alfred Miller DFC (169725) (RAFVR) (Pilot) Evaded Capture
Sergeant Robert Watson (1822226) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
References:
Chorley W R Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 5 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1944, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1997
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records