LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Patrick James GALLIGAN
Service No: 425298
Born: Imbil QLD, 16 December 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 1 February 1942
Unit: No. 44 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Dunholme Lodge
Died: Air Operations: (No. 44 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ED307), Netherlands, 29 June 1943, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery, Locality Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Patrick and Emma Theresa Galligan, of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. His brother Edwin Richard Galligan also fell.
Roll of Honour: Maryborough QLD
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Brother of Flight Sergeant Edwin Richard Galligan (425149)
At 2317 hours on the night of 28 June 1943 Lancaster ED307 took off from Dunholme Lodge detailed to attack Cologne, Germany. The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at 0254 hours at Nuenen (Noord Brabant), 6 miles north east from the centre of Eindhoven. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of ED307 were:
Sergeant George Albert Denney (756167) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Patrick James Galligan (425298) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant Charles Vernon Leslie Hulbert (1334066) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Thomas Rees Jones (1379595) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Dennis Mansell Lewis (1581747) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Joshua Alan Sykes (657255) (RAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Arthur Tooth (1438888) (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, 166/15/74