LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Ronald Cecil CHRISTIE
Service No: 410630
Born: Malvern VIC, 19 August 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 31 January 1942
Unit: No. 32 Squadron, Camden NSW
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 32 Squadron Beaufort aircraft A9-350), Saddleback Mountain NSW, 18 November 1943, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Camden War Cemetery NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Cecil Edward and Ruby May Christie, of Malvern, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Malvern VIC
Remembered: Panel 102, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
During a night cross-country flight on 18 November 1943, Beaufort A9-350 crashed on Saddleback Mountain, near Kiama NSW, and all five RAAF members on board were killed.
On board A9-350 were:
Flight Sergeant Ronald Cecil Christie (410630) (Pilot)
Sergeant Francis Nelson Fanning (419465) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Douglas Reginald James (418721) (Navigator)
Sergeant Reginald Alfred Sharples (419226) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Harry Sydney James Terrill (419426) (Navigator, Supernumerary)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9845, 254
Bibliography:
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1990