LEST WE FORGET
Squadron Leader John Harry MacKellar CHISHOLM
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 39652 (RAF)
Born: New South Wales, 1918
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 157 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 157 Squadron Mosquito aircraft TA396), North West Europe, 16 September 1944, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John MacKellar Chisholm and Margery MacKellar Chisholm; husband of Patricia Lorraine Chisholm, of Betton Strange, Shropshire
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 200, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
On 15 September 1944, Mosquito TA396 took off from Swannington at 2340 hours and was lost without trace.
The crew members of TA396 were:
Squadron Leader John Henry MacKellar Chisholm (39652) (Pilot)
Flight Lieutenant Eric Lawless Wilde (121474) (RAFVR) (Navigator Wireless Operator)
References:
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 5 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1944, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1997
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Newton, Dennis First Impact, Banner Books, Maryborough QLD 4650, 1997
RAF Commands Website