LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Alexander MacGregor WILSON
Service No: 400314
Born: Auckland, New Zealand, 28 May 1910
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 August 1941 (at Melbourne VIC)
Unit: No. 218 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Marham
Died: Air Operations: (No. 218 Squadron Wellington aircraft N2844), Netherlands, 19 August 1941, Aged 31 Years
Buried: Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Francis Robert and Annie Kaye Wilson, of Canterbury, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2348 hours on the night of 18 August 1941Wellington N2844 took off from Marham detailed to bomb Duisberg, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at 0206 hours on 19August 1941 in the Ljsselmeer. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of N2844 were:
Sergeant Roy Gerald Boswell (622252) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant Lothian Julyan George (R/69557) (RCAF) (Observer)
Sergeant Sydney Arthur Maguire (13780110 (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Ewart Duncan Pockney (76925) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Kenneth Charles Shearing (758034) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Alexander MacGregor Wilson (400314) (Wireless Air 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, 166/43/1000