LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Godfrey WOOLF
Service No: 421345
Born: Macksville NSW, 4 January 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 31 January 1942
Unit: No. 97 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Bourn
Died: Air Operations: (No. 97 Squadron Lancaster aircraft JA960), Germany, 2 January 1944, Aged 19 Years
Buried: Rheinberg War Cemetery, Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Samuel and Dora Woolf, of Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: The Great Synagogue World War II Roll of Honour, Sydney NSW
Remembered: The Great Synagogue Roll of Honour Book, Sydney NSW
Flight Sergeant Woolf had completed 32 operational sorties (five against Berlin) and he was awarded the Path Finder Badge.
At 0051 hours on the morning of 2 January 1944 Lancaster JA960 took off from Bourn detailed to bomb Berlin. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire when home bound and crashed into a hill near Aachen at 0507 hours. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of JA960 were:
Flight Sergeant Norman Davidson Cameron (107716) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Felix Bernard Grey (1119682) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Pilot Officer George Albert Johnson DFM (170252) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flying Officer Robert Leo Mooney DFM (120499) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant George Edward Smith (616653) (RAF) (Rear Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Godfrey Woolf (421345) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Jack Worsdale DFM (1111874) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
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, 166/44/87
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line