LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Frederick D’Orsa HUNTER
Service No: 400504
Born: St Kilda VIC, 4 December 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 14 September 1940
Unit: No. 35 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Linton-on-Ouse
Died: Air Operations: (No. 35 Squadron Halifax aircraft W1101), Germany, 20 May 1942, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bad-Tolz, Bayern, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Arthur George and Angelina Mary Hunter, of St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: St Kilda VIC
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2200 hours on the night of 119 May 1942 Halifax W1101 took off from Linton-on-Ouse to bomb Mannheim, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return. The aircraft crashed near Mannheim and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of W1101 were:
Sergeant Francis Edwin Flint (1169620) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Frederick D’Orsa Hunter (400504) (Observer)
Sergeant Edward James Morris (297975) (RAF) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Richard Lionel Prosser (950585) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Dudley Herman Reed (403987) (RNZAF) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Leslie Plimmer Russell (40209) (RNZAF) (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, 163/124/142