LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Frank Watson WEEKES
Service No: 402176
Born: Sydney NSW, 4 May 1911
Enlisted in the RAAF: 24 June 1940
Unit: No. 105 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Horsham St Faith
Died: Air Operations: (No. 105 Squadron Mosquito aircraft DK295), Germany, 28 July 1942, Aged 31 Years
Buried: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Locality Kleve, Nordrhein-West6falen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John James Weekes and Jane Isabella Weekes; husband of Miranda Francis Weekes, of Point Piper, New South Wales, Australia. B.Ec.
Roll of Honour: Point Piper NSW
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1740 hours on 28 July 1942 Mosquito DK295 took off from Horsham St Faith as part of a force detailed to bomb the Krupps works at Essen, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft and lost and both crew members were killed.
The crew members of DK295 were:
Pilot Officer Frank Arthur Hurley (47905) (RAF) (Observer)
Flying Officer Frank Watson Weekes (402176) (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, 163/63/161