LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Bruce Douglas DYER
Service No: 429280
Born: Auburn NSW, 21 May 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 7 November 1942
Unit: No. 15 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Mildenhall
Died: Air Operations: (No. 15 Squadron Lancaster aircraft NF952), North West Europe, 27 August 1944, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information:
Roll of Honour: Merewether NSW
Remembered: Panel 260, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 121, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Newcastle Boys High School Memorial Entrance World War II, Waratah NSW
At 2013 hours on the night of 26 August 1944 Lancaster NF952 took off from Mildenhall to attack Kiel, Germany. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. With no trace of the missing aircraft or crew being found following post war investigations and enquiries, it was recorded in 1948 that the missing crew were lost at sea.
The crew members of NF952 were:
Sergeant William Dunbar Brockett (1825415) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant George Barr Donaldson (1568395) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Bruce Douglas Dyer (429280) (Wireless Operator)
Sergeant Reginald David Faint (1175373) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant Kenneth Victor Logan (1399075) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flight Lieutenant William John Moran (423822) (Pilot)
Sergeant Charles Rennie (1563802) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
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, 166/10/295
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line