LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Keith Robert McPHERSON
Service No: 430391
Born: Northcote VIC, 24 October 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 29 January 1943
Unit: No. 2 Bombing and Gunnery School (RCAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 2 Bombing and Gunnery School Bolingbroke aircraft), Saskatchewan, 13 March 1944, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Mossbank Cemetery, Saskatchewan, Canada
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Albert Stanley McPherson and Florence McPherson, of Northcote, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Northcote VIC
Remembered: Panel 133, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 13 March 1944, a Bolingbroke aircraft on a routine gunnery exercise crashed at about 1030 hours and all on board were killed. The Duty Pilot saw the aircraft spinning at approximately 1,000 feet and it spun all the way down hitting the ground 2 miles south west of the airfield.
The crew members were:
Pilot Officer Victor Herman Inderbitzin (J/43229) (RCAF) (Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Donald Charles McKenzie (36216) (Trainee Air Gunner)
Leading Aircraftman Keith Robert McPherson (430391) (Trainee Air Gunner)
Sergeant Howard Murray Reed (R/181611) (RCAF) (Gunnery Instructor)
Leading Aircraftman James Edward Tierney (R/189290) (RCAF) (Trainee 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, 166/26/393