LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Donald John MACKERRAS
Service No: 422599
Born: Camperdown VIC, 7 November 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 May 1942 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 3 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Folkestone, Kent
Died: Air Operations: (No. 3 Squadron Tempest aircraft JN759), Sussex, 6 August 1944, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John William and Ermonce Irene Mackerras, of Pymble, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Ku-ring-gai NSW
Remembered: Panel 126, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Ku-ring-gai World War 2 Book of Remembrance, Gordon NSW
Remembered: Gordon Rugby Football Club, Chatswood NSW
On a daytime operational Anti-Diver (V1, flying bomb) Patrol, Tempest JN759 flown by Flight Sergeant Mackerras crashed at 1336 hours on 6 August 1944 near Minfield, Sussex, about 10 miles north east of Eastbourne.
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, 166/27/28
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line