LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Ansell Edward BRITTEN-JONES
Service No: 416016
Born: Melbourne VIC, 28 May 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 3 March 1941 (at Adelaide SA)
Unit: No. 194 Squadron (RAF), Palam, India
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 194 Squadron Hudson aircraft FK411), Palam, 15 April 1943, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Delhi War Cemetery, India
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Ansell and Kathleen Mary Britten-Jones, of Modbury, South Australia.
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 119, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
Hudson FK411 crashed at Palam on 15 April 1943. The aircraft had just become airborne with the undercarriage nearly or completely retracted, when it banked slightly into wind, lost height and struck the ground with both engines running. The aircraft burst into flames and was destroyed.
The crew members of FK411 were:
Pilot Officer F J Andrews (136726) (RAFVR) (Navigator Bomb Aimer) Injured
Flight Sergeant Ansell Edward Britten-Jones (416016) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Arthur Brown (1265761) (RAFVR) (Navigator Bomb Aimer)
Pilot Officer J R Curtis (J/16320) (RCAF) (Pilot) Injured
Sergeant Francis Thomas Joseph Gloster (405582) (Wireless Air Gunner) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 1 March 1946
Pilot Officer E L Herring (111858) (RAF) (Pilot) Injured
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 Record A705, 166/6/107