LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Frederick Scott BRISSENDEN
Service No: 422118
Born: Dulwich Hill NSW, 21 June 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 25 April 1942
Unit: No. 160 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident: Australians in Burma (No. 160 Squadron Liberator aircraft BZ864), near Colombo, 19 April 1944, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Colombo (Liveramentu) Cemetery, Sri Lanka
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Lynton Edward and Agnes Emily Brissenden, of Earlwood, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Canterbury NSW
Remembered: Panel 119, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Shortly before 0200 hours on the morning of 19 April 1944 Liberator BZ864 took off detailed to carry out a dive bombing attack on an enemy convoy. The aircraft crashed shortly after take-off when it attained a height of 50 feet and struck the top of a gun site, lost height, crashed into trees and burst into flames. Six of the crew members were killed and three were injured.
The crew members of BZ864 were:
Flight Sergeant Warwick Melville Beauchamp (421880) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Frederick Scott Brissenden (422118) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant L C Colbourne (R/130098) (RCAF) (Wireless Air Gunner) Injured
Pilot Officer William John Crawford (151436) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Walter Nevitt Harris (416961) (Air Gunner) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 3 June 1948
Sergeant Reginald Thomas Holbrook (1213763) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Squadron Leader John Frederick Percival (42378) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant J K Thompson (1334326) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner) Injured
Flying Officer Kenneth Biltcliffe Winfield (151277) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
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, 166/6/507