LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant James Robert McINTYRE
Service No: 426653
Born: Brisbane QLD, 5 December 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 July 1942
Unit: No. 576 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Elsham Wolds
Died: Air Operations: (No. 576 Squadron Lancaster aircraft NM711), Germany, 23 September 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James Phair McIntyre and May Helen McIntyre, of Manly, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Wynnum QLD
Remembered: Panel 126, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1851 hours on the night of 23 September 1944, Lancaster NM711 took off from Elsham
Wolds, detailed to bomb Neuss, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after takeoff and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at 2020 hours about 1km south east of Kapellen on the southern outskirts of Moers, Germany, and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of NM711 were:
Sergeant Charles John Brady (R/170692) (RCAF) (Air Bomber)
Flying Officer Stanley Frederick Durrant (151718) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flying Officer James Johnstone (153834) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant James Gordon Mackey (R/216220) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant James Robert McIntyre (426653) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Ronald Ernest Pearce (1880404) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant David Spowart (1567579) (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, 166/26/1156