LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Ronald Lewis MALOR
Service No: 423246
Born: Perth WA, 27 July 1912
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 June 1942 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 70 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 70 Squadron Wellington aircraft LN870), Bulgaria, 12 June 1944, Aged 31 Years
Buried: Sofia War Cemetery, Bulgaria
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Michael and Maude Evelyn Malor; husband of Wynifred Gertrude Mary Malor, of Killara, New South Wales, Australia. Barrister
Roll of Honour: Killara NSW
Remembered: Panel 126, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Ku-ring-gai World War II Book of Remembrance, Gordon NSW
Remembered: University of Sydney World War 2 Roll of Honour, Camperdown NSW
On the night of 11/12 June 1944 Wellington LN870 took off from Tortorella landing ground, Italy, to attack the airfield at Karlovo, Bulgaria. The attack was to disrupt German fighter aircraft operations against US Bombers raiding oil targets in Romania. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. A Missing Research and Enquiry team later reported “the aircraft crashed between the villages of Krivodel and Staliiska Mahala, in the district of Lom. All the crew members were killed.”
The crew members of LN870 were:
Sergeant William Leonard Bugg (1323669) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air)
Flight Sergeant Ronald Lewis Malor (423246) (Navigator)
Warrant Officer Brian Edward Marstin (414498) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Douglas McAully (425040) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Ian Reid (1574052) (RAFVR) (Air 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 Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/27/464
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line