LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Jack Ralph GAVEGAN
From Australia serving in the Royal New Zealand Air Force
Service No: 402128 (RNZAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RNZAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 75 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Feltwell
Died: Air Operations (No. 75 Squadron Wellington III aircraft X3557), Netherlands, 9 July 1942, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Cecil Percival Gavegan and of Catherine Mary Gavegan, of Adelaide, South Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 116, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
On 8 July 1942, Wellington X3557 took-off from Feltwell to attack Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The aircraft crashed at 0130 hours in the Wadde Rottumeroog and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of X3557 were:
Pilot Officer Alan Stewart Broun (405367) (RNZAF) (Observer)
Pilot Officer Jack Ralph Gavegan (402128) (RNZAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Frank Edwin McKenzie (391085) (RNZAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Donald Norman Potts (412267) (RNZAF) (Second Pilot)
Pilot Officer Trevor Harry Smith (41953) (RNZAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant George Anthony Young (405771) (RNZAF) (Air Gunner)
References:
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 3 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1942, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1994
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
IBCC Website