LEST WE FORGET

Flight Lieutenant Ian Milne WOOD

Service No: 403704
Born: Brisbane QLD, 15 July 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 2 March 1941 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 44 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Dunholme Lodge
Died: Air Operations: (No. 44 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ED331), North West Europe, 13 July 1943, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Jack Stephenson Wood and Annie Leader Wood, of Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Mosman NSW
Remembered: Panel 187, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT

At 2223 hours on 12 July 1943 Lancaster ED331 took off from Station Dunholme Lodge to attack Turin, Italy. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. Following post war enquiries and investigations, it was recorded in 1949 that the missing crew members had no known graves.

The crew members of ED331 were:

Pilot Officer Fred Irving Calcutt (50437) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Flight Lieutenant Dennis Cramp MID (113332) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air Ginner)
Flying Officer Kenneth Stanley Juniper (119301) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Pilot Officer Arthur Ronald Ludlow (128653) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Pilot Officer John Edward Money (52539) (RAF) (Flight Engineer)
Wing Commander John Dering Nettleton VC (41452) (RAF) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Dennis Ernest Arthur Seager (1254727) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Lieutenant Ian Milne Wood (403704) (Wireless Operator/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, 166/44/43

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