LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Neville Jack WESTON
Service No: 400245
Born: Carlingford NSW, 9 February 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 21 July 1940 (at Melbourne VIC)
Unit: No. 97 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Coningsby
Died: Air Operations: (No. 97 Squadron Manchester aircraft L7466), North Sea, 8 November 1941, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George James Weston and Annie Weston, of North Balwyn, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 63, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1320 hours on 8 November 1941 Manchester L7466 took off from Coningsby to carry out air sea rescue work in the North Sea searching for crews reported missing from the previous night’s operations. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. It was later recorded that the missing crew members had lost their lives at sea.
The crew members of L7466 were:
Sergeant Clifford Robert Bronson (R/74747) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Amos Richard Albert Dexter (1283306) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Sergeant Frederick William Manners (632301) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Gordon Harold John Pickering (84320) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Flight Lieutenant Charles Peter Dovey Price DFC (41736) (RAF) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Christopher Stanley DFM (5332826) (RAF) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Sergeant Neville Jack Weston (400245) (Observer)
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, 163/177/169