LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Kenneth Aldred BALDRY
(shown as Sergeant Kenneth Aldred MACKAY-BALDRY on the Commemorative Roll)
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 741301 (RAFVR)
Born: Wallendbeen NSW, 1 July 1917
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School Tiger Moth aircraft T5422) Bristol Channel, 12 December 1940, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Burnham Cemetery, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Aldred Nelson Baldry and Annie Mabel Baldry, of Wallendbeen, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Remembered: Cootamundra War Memorial, Cootamundra NSW
Remembered: Wallendbeen Memorial Obelisk, Wallendbeen NSW
On 12 December 1940, Tiger Moth T5422 crashed into the sea in the Bristol Channel and both crew members were killed. The crew members were:
Sergeant Kenneth Aldred Baldry (741301) (RAFVR) (Instructor Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Roderick George Lyall MacKenzie (1104259) (RAFVR) (Trainee Pilot, Aged 17 years)
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
RAF Commands Website
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line