LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Kenneth Albert WILSON
Service No: 427580
Born: Perth WA, 25 April 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 19 July 1942
Unit: No. 11 Pilot Advance Flying Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 11 Pilot Advanced Flying Unit Oxford aircraft P6800), Denbighshire, Wales, 30 January 1944, Aged 19 Years
Buried: Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Cheshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Albert Henry and Florence Maud Wilson, of Bunbury, Western Australia.
Roll of Honour: Bunbury WA
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Cenotaph Undercroft, State War Memorial, Kings Park WA
On 30 January 1944, Flight Sergeant Wilson, a Pilot, was killed in a flying accident in Airspeed Oxford aircraft P6800 at Wold’s End, Denbighshire. The starboard wing struck a tree and the aircraft crashed.
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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Records NAA A705 166/43/522