LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Walter James HUNT
Service No: 413601
Born: Leicester, England, 13 July 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 12 September 1941 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 622 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Mildenhall
Died: Air Operations: (No. 622 Squadron Stirling aircraft EH991), North West Europe, 28 September 1943, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Walter and Ethel Marion Hunt, of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Randwick NSW
Remembered: Panel 191, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1940 hours on 27 September 1943 Stirling EH991 took off from Mildenhall to bomb Hannover, Germany. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft or crew after take-off. In 1950 it was recorded that the crew members were missing with no known graves.
The crew members of EH991 were:
Pilot Officer John Joseph Chandler (J/22485) (RCAF) (Navigator)
Pilot Officer Joseph William Kenneth Hall (J/19432) (RCAF) (Air Bomber)
Pilot Officer Walter James Hunt (413601) (Pilot)
Sergeant Leonard Meadow (1024031) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Kenneth Gordon McLeod (1803388) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant William Tebbutt (1577297) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Lionel George Henry Weaving (943636) (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, 166/18/190