LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant William Henry Charles DORAN
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 1345599 (RAFVR)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 57 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 57 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ED861), North West Europe, 13 July 1943, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Caroline Doran, of Garden City, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 136, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
On 13 July 1943, Lancaster ED861 took off from Scampton at 2155 hours to attack Turin, Italy. The aircraft was lost without trace.
The crew members of ED861 were:
Sergeant John Alexander Carpenter (1323063) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant William Henry Charles Doran (1345599) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Ernest Edward Goldstraw (1021749) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Gordon Charles Grew (1230512) (RAFVR) (Observer)
Sergeant George Haywood (1209070) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant John Pickett (414613) (RNZAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant Cecil Edgar Pollard Still (1234599) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
References:
Chorley, W.R. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 4 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1943, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1996
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records