LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Lancelot Lloyd FITZGERALD
Service No: 88417
Born: Hobart TAS, 10 February 1925
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 February 1943
Unit: No. 1 Operational Training Unit, RAAF Station East Sale VIC
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 1 Operational Training Unit Beaufort aircraft A9-146), near East Sale, 7 February 1945, Aged 19 Years
Buried: Sale War Cemetery, VIC
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Roy Everett and Gladys Frances Fitzgerald, of Hobart, Tasmania
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 112, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2130 hours on 7 February 1945, Beaufort A9-146 crashed 8 kms east of the East Sale airfield during night circuit training. The three crew members who were all killed were:
Flight Sergeant Kenneth William Dobbie (442311) (Second Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Lancelot Lloyd Fitzgerald (88417) (Navigator)
Wing Commander Peter Kingsley-Strack (260290) (Pilot)
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, 245
Bibliography:
Lax, M. (Mark) (editor) Always Ready: a history of RAAF East Sale, RAAF Publications Unit Melbourne VIC, 1993
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1990