LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Clifford Charles Pownall LOGAN
Service No: 405918
Born: Rockhampton QLD, 5 January 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 June 1941
Unit: No. 75 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Mepal
Died: Air Operations: (No. 75 Squadron Stirling aircraft BF459), Germany, 23 September 1943, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bad Tolz, Bayern, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Raymond Hough Logan and Agnes Eleanor Logan, of Corfield, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Winton QLD
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1945 hours on the night of 23 September 1943 Stirling BF459 took off from Mepal detailed to bomb Mannheim, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at Lampertheim, 12 kms north of Mannheim. Five of the crew members were killed and two became Prisoners of War.
The crew members of BF459 were:
Flight Sergeant Frederick Edward William Crowther (1339159) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner) PoW, Fatally injured, Died: 3 October 1943
Sergeant Terence James Hegarty (1030026) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer John Paul Ingham (132331) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant A J Knox (416006) (RNZAF) (Air Gunner) PoW
Flying Officer Clifford Charles Pownall Logan (405918) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Phillips Sowerby (417243) (RNZAF) (Navigator)
Sergeant Thomas Stewart (1117389) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Knox later reported “according to German authorities in Dulag Luft, I believe the
Skipper was killed. I cannot help any more than this as I did not land near the crashed aircraft.”
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, 166/25/9