LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Clive Gordon LORD
Service No: 402127
Born: Rose Bay NSW, 8 May 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 27 May 1940
Unit: No. 58 Squadron (RAF), RAF Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire
Died: Air Operations: (No. 58 Squadron Whitley aircraft Z 9155), UK, 13 October 1941, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Barmby-on-the-Moor (St Catherine) Churchyard, Yorkshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Roy Septimus and Emma Trant Lord, of Gemorne, New South Wales, Australia.
Roll of Honour: Chatswood NSW
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Gordon Rugby Football Club, Chatswood NSW
At 1909 hours on the night of 12 October 1941, Whitley Z 9155 took off from RAF Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, detailed to bomb Nuremburg, Germany. The aircraft crashed at 0500 hours on 13 October 1941 at Allerthorpe in the vicinity of Pocklington airfield Yorkshire, while being diverted, and all the crew were killed. A few minutes before the crash the pilot radioed to say the aircraft was almost out of fuel.
The crew members of Z 9155 were:
Flight Sergeant William Henry Burns (R/64045) (RCAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Hugh Edwin Donson (R/71909) (RCAF) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Herbert Conroy Lee (908627) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Clive Gordon Lord (402127) (Pilot)
Sergeant Joseph Geoffrey Rich (406044) (Observer)
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, 163/139/77
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line