LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Daniel Charles MORLEY
Service No: 425719
Born: Hughenden QLD, 30 November 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 April 1942
Unit: No. 115 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Witchford
Died: Air Operations: (No. 115 Squadron Lancaster aircraft DS782), North West Europe, 22 November 1943, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George Bassett Morley and Sarah Mabel Jane Morley
Roll of Honour: Hughenden QLD
Remembered: Panel 193, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1737 hours on 22 November 1943 Lancaster DS782 took off from Witchford to bomb Berlin. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. Following post war investigations and enquiries, it was recorded in 1950 that the missing crew members had no known graves.
The crew members of DS782 were:
Sergeant Martin Bools (1585666) (RAFVR)
Sergeant John Harris (1452502) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Desmond Howard Hughes (1831558) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Henry Andrew Ronald Hurn (1501801) (RAFVR)
Flight Sergeant Daniel Charles Morley (425719) (Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Stanley Maurice Smith (J/23734) (RCAF)
Sergeant Alexander Wilson (1434808) (RAFVR)
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, 166/28/192
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line