LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Grahame Albert Cregeen WOOD
Service No: 401343
Born: Hobart TAS, 10 August 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 2 February 1941 (at Melbourne VIC)
Unit: No. 456 Squadron
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 456 Squadron Beaufighter aircraft X8190), Wales, 8 October 1942, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Holyhead Cemetery, Anglesey, North Wales
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Albert Anderson Cregeen Wood and May Ellen Wood, of Summerhill, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Launceston TAS
Remembered: Panel 106, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
During a non-operation training flight on 8 October 1942 in Beaufighter X8190, the starboard engine failed when the aircraft was at 9,000 feet and the pilot force landed the aircraft on Valley Q site at Newborough Islet, Anglesey. Both the crew members were killed in the forced landing.
The crew members of X8190 were:
Warrant Officer Ronald Norman Bilton Scott (400737) (Pilot)
Sergeant Grahame Albert Cregeen Wood (401343) (Navigator Radio)
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, 163/179/221