LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer James Geen COURTNEY
Service No: 404092
Born: Roma QLD, 28 May 1912
Enlisted in the RAAF: 24 May 1940
Unit: No. 150 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Snaith
Died: Air Operations: (No. 150 Squadron Wellington aircraft X9830), North West Europe, 21 February 1942, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Frederick James Courtney and Antonia Emma Courtney, of Roma, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Roma QLD
Remembered: Panel 109, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 120, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2004 hours on 21 February 1942 Wellington X9830 took off from Snaith being one of 12 aircraft detailed to attack Darmstadt, Germany. The weather conditions were good. The aircraft did not return to base and efforts to trace the missing aircraft and crew after the war were unsuccessful.
The crew members of X9830 were:
Flying Officer James Geen Courtney (404092) (Observer)
Sergeant Thomas George Evans (947420) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Edward Lloyd Fiske (927796) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer John Bryan Green (45424) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant George Charlton Jobling (1054474) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Harold Gregory McKean (400353) (Air Gunner)
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, 163/26/183