LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Jack Matthew BOUSFIELD DFC
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 79226 (RAFVR)
Born: Waratah NSW, 1911
Enlisted in the RAF: 1940
Unit: No. 50 Squadron (RAF)
Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 50 Squadron Lancaster III aircraft ED488), Belgium, 2 February 1943, Age unavailable
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: No additional information
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 119, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
DFC Citation: Flying Officer Bousfield has taken part, as Air Gunner, in 28 operational flights. During all these operations, he has shown the greatest courage and keenness in the execution of his duties. An enthusiastic squadron Gunnery Officer who has a good influence on the unit. (Citation dated 6 June 1941)
Lancaster ED488 took off from Skellingthorpe at 1826 hours to attack Cologne. The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed 2127 into a swamp 1 km north west of Hamont (Limburg), 13 km north north west of Bree, Belgium.
Sergeant Stanley David Beadon (647383) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Flight Lieutenant Jack Matthew Bousfield DFC (792226) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant David Norman Clark (1013983) (RAFVR) PoW
Flying Officer T H L Church (J/10062) (RCAF) PoW
Sergeant Ronald Arthur Holland (1381600) (RAFVR) PoW
Sergeant V J Mitchell (980196) (RAFVR) PoW
Flying Officer David Allan Power (J/9418) (RCAF) (Pilot)
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Chorley, W.R. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 4 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1943, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1996
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record AWM65, 373
NSW Register of Births On Line