LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Allan HOOKER
Service No: 420753
Born: Maclean NSW, 30 May 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 9 November 1941
Unit: No. 15 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Mildenhall
Died: Air Operations: (No. 15 Squadron Lancaster aircraft EE912), Germany, 1 September 1943, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Herbert and Verena Alberta Hooker; husband of Rose Leith Hooker, of Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Armidale NSW
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Armidale Dumaresq Council War Memorial Library, Armidale NSW
At 2011 hours on the night of 31 August 1943 Lancaster EE912 took off from Mildenhall to bomb Berlin. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base. It was established post war that the aircraft crashed at Roskow, 13kms north east of Brandenburg, Germany. All the crew members had been killed.
The crew members of EE912 were:
Flight Sergeant Philip Munro Brook (421563) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Ronald Charles Haigh (1587219) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Allan Hooker (420753) (Rear Gunner)
Warrant Officer Joseph Limmett Milner (R/79162) (RCAF) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Thomas Joseph Ryan (R/137429) (RCAF) (Bomb Aimer)
Sergeant John Michael Stringfellow (1045932) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Edward John Wright (1044677) (RAFVR) (Wireless 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, 166/18/163
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line