LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Jack Murray Clyde WILSON
Service No: 410405
Born: Oakleigh VIC, 13 August 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 December 1941
Unit: No. 100 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Died: Air Operations: (No. 100 Squadron Lancaster aircraft JB603), Netherlands, 5 January 1945, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Gorssel General Cemetery, Gelderland, Netherlands
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Alexander John and Grace Mabel Wilson; husband of Olwen Alys Wilson, of Essendon, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Oakleigh VIC
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Lancaster JB603 took off from Grimsby at 1910 hours on the night of 5/6th January 1943, detailed to bomb Hanover, Germany. A signal was received from the aircraft at 2206 hours ‘target attacked’. After that nothing was heard and JB603 failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at 2300 hours in the hamlet of Haarbroek (Gelderland), 7kms south east of Gorssel and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of JB603 were:
Sergeant Bernard George Aldred (1492353) (RAFVR) Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer Reginald Barker (179071) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Frank Shackleton Elliott (1672286) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Eamonn Gillen (2221440) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Alistair Stewart Gordon (1825828) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Albert Arthur Law (1621232) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Pilot Officer Jack Murray Clyde Wilson (410405) (Wireless Operator Air)
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, 166/43/1070
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line