LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Frank WEAVER
Service No: 422330
Born: Newcastle NSW, 4 March 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 April 1942
Unit: No. 106 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Syerston
Died: Air Operations: (No. 106 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ED819), Germany, 7 September 1943, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bad Tolz, Bayern, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Frank and Elsie Weaver; husband of Hazel Weaver, of Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Hurstville NSW
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1950 hours on the night of 6 September 1943 Lancaster ED819 took off from Syerston detailed to bomb Munich, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at Grunwald, 13 kms south south west from the centre of Munich and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of ND819 were:
Flying Officer Ralph Enrique Favier (139690) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Thomas Georgte Goodwin (1281353) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Pilot Officer Ronald Dive Large (149555) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flying Officer William Sydney Neathway (134162) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Derrick William Savoy (1268571) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant David Smith (1062133) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Frank Weaver (422330) (Mid Upper 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 Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/43/333