LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Malcolm Graeme MEDHURST
Service No: 414248
Born: Brisbane QLD, 27 June 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 17 August 1941
Unit: No. 103 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Elsham Wolds
Died: Air Operations: (No. 103 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ED725), Germany, 18 August 1943, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Kiel War Cemetery, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Malcolm Ernest and Margaret Ann Medhurst, of East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; husband of Edith Mary Medhurst, of Lockfield, Staffordshire, England
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Lancaster ED725 took off from RAF Elsham Wolds at 2130 hours on the night of 17August 1943 detailed to bomb Peenemunde, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft was shot down and crashed at Tarup on 18 August and all the crew members were killed. Twenty two aircraft from various squadrons were lost on this mission.
The crew members of ED725 were:
Flight Sergeant Ernest Roy Biggs (413476) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Philip John Capon (751463) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant William Henry Greaves (1624484) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Clarence Norman Lee (1535178) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Malcolm Graeme Medhurst (414248) (Air Bomber)
Pilot Officer Peter Joseph O’Donnell (156627) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Cyril Percy Williams (1193026) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
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, 166/27/202
Bibliography:
Charlwood, D.E.C. (Donald Ernest Cameron) (408794) No Moon Tonight (Angus and Robertson 1956), Penguin Ringwood VIC, 3134, 1991