LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Noel Grant WILSON
Service No: 409866
Born: Melbourne VIC, 19 August 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 10 October 1941
Unit: Air Fighting Development Unit (RAF), RAF Station Wittering
Died: Aircraft Accident (Air Fighting Development Unit Spitfire aircraft P7368), Cambridgeshire, 2 February 1944, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridgeshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Lewis Grant Wilson and Ethel Alma Wilson, of Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Camberwell VIC
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 2 February 1944, Spitfire P7368 was involved in a non-operational day fighter affiliation exercise. At 1000 hours, the aircraft stalled during mock combat and crashed at Hardwick, about six miles west of Cambridge and Pilot Officer Wilson was killed.
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, 166/43/526