LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Noel Clive HAIN
Service No: 403809
Born: West Maitland NSW, 7 June 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 3 March 1941
Unit: No. 102 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Topcliffe
Died: Air Operations: (No. 102 Squadron Halifax aircraft R9495), Netherlands, 6 August 1942, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Eindhoven (Woensal) Communal Cemetery, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Francis Clive and Doris Robertson Hain, of Chullora, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: West Maitland NSW
Remembered: Panel 123, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2201 hours on the night of 5 August 1942 Halifax R9495 took off from Topcliffe detailed to bomb Bochum, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at Odenrode (Noord-Brabant), 14 kms north of Eindhoven, Netherlands, and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of R9495 were:
Sergeant James Colville (567129) (RAF) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Arthur Stanley Charles Ellis (915447) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Frank Arthur Frost (1330615) (RAFVR) (Observer)
Sergeant Noel Clive Hain (403809) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Stanley Raymond Lupton (R/63733) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant William Gordon McKinnon (R/81478) (RCAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Reginald Seymour Tadman DFM (754021) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
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, 163/120/534