LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Harcourt Hunter McMULLAN
Service No: 425732
Born: Innisfail QLD, 13 October 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 April 1942
Unit: No. 138 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Tempsford
Died: Air Operations: (No. 138 Squadron Halifax aircraft LL192), off the Danish Coast, 8 May 1944, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Thomas Hunter McMullan and Vena Bell McMullan, of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Mareeba QLD
Remembered: Panel 256, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 126, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2230 hours on the night of 7 May 1944 Halifax LL192 took off from Tempsford, with a number of Squadron aircraft on Special Operations Executive (SOE) Operation Tablejam. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. The body of one crew member was washed ashore in Denmark one two in Sweden while the remaining crew members are recorded as lost at sea.
The crew members of LL192 were:
Sergeant Ronald Boffey (1582849) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Lieutenant Harcourt Hunter McMullan (425732) (Pilot)
Sergeant Angus Alexander MacPherson (1566921) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Kevin James Murphy (J/26699) (RCAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Leslie Leonard John Smith (1473490) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Leslie Frank Stannard (151143) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Bernard Stynes (1230339) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air)
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, 166/26/450