LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Keith Frederick HYNES
Service No: 403514
Born: Sydney NSW, 7 April 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 1 February 1941
Unit: No. 109 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Little Staughton
Died: Air Operations: (No. 109 Squadron Mosquito aircraft MM178), Belgium, 19 October 1944, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Adinkerke Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Thomas Patrick and Muriel Eliza Hynes, of Bondi, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Leichardt NSW
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 0008 hours on the morning of 19 October 1944 Mosquito MM178 took off from RAF Little Staughton detailed to bomb Pforzheim, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed in Belgium and the crew members were killed.
The crew members of MM178 were:
Flying Officer Keith Frederick Hynes (403514) (Observer)
Squadron Leader Desmond Hayward Sidley Kay DFC & Bar (42006) (RAF) (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, 166/18/251