LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Carl Victor KRIEG
Service No: 437425
Born: Nuriootpa SA 12 October 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 30 January 1943
Unit: No. 101 Squadron (RAF), RAF Ludford Magna, Lincolnshire
Died: Air Operations (No. 101 Squadron Lancaster aircraft DV301), France, 1 July 1944, Aged 19 Years
Buried: Langon Communal Cemetery, Loire-et-Cher, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Gustav Wilhelm and Alwine Wilhelmine Sophie Krieg, of Nuriootpa, South Australia
Roll of Honour: Nuriootpa SA
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
Lancaster DV301 took off from RAF Ludford Magna at 2219 hours on the night of 30 June 1944, detailed to carry out specialist ABC (Airborne Cigar – Radar jamming) duties in support of a mission to bomb railway facilities at Vierson. The aircraft was shot down and crashed at L’Autiere in the commune of Langon, 20 kms east of Vierson. All the crew members were killed
The crew members of DV301 were:
Pilot Officer James Nelson Brown (173626) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Albert Thomas Couch (R/208208) (RCAF) (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer William Robert Cuthbertson (144345) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Carl Victor Krieg (437425) (Wireless Operator Air) (Specialist Equipment Operator)
Sergeant Thomas Lyth (1491299) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant William Offord (1892332) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant John Pritchard (417887) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant David Urquhart (R/208306) (RCAF) (Mid Upper 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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/23/65