LEST WE FORGET
Warrant Officer Samuel Albert FOLBIGG
Service No: 414783
Born: Gatton QLD, 11 April 1910
Enlisted in the RAAF: 9 November 1941
Unit: No. 644 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 644 Squadron Halifax aircraft LL400), North West Europe, 31 August 1944, Aged 34 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James and Edith Sarah Ellen Folbigg; husband of Gladys Adeline Folbigg, of Forest Hill, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Forest Hill QLD
Remembered: Panel 259, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 0146 hours on 31 August 1944 Halifax LL400 took off on a special No. 38 Group operation over Europe. The aircraft was due to return at 0543 hours, but nothing further was heard after take-off, and the aircraft did not return to base. In 1950 the crew members were recorded as having no known graves.
The crew members of LL400 were:
Flying Officer Walter John Caverley (J/21134) (RCAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant George Bernard Fitzgerald (1591345) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Warrant Officer Samuel Albert Folbigg (414783) (Wireless Operator/Air)
Flight Sergeant Stanley George Kentch (1397348) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flying Officer William Alexander MacLennan (420586) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Bryan Joseph Tuhey (1396774) (RAFVR) (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, 166/14/261