LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Robert Bruce MULLINGER
Service No: 411595
Born: Windsor NSW, 28 August 1909
Enlisted in the RAAF: 24 may 1941
Unit: No. 12 Squadron (RAF), RAF Wickenby, Lincolnshire
Died: Air Operations: (No. 12 Squadron Lancaster aircraft I W4372), North West Europe, 18 January 1943, Aged 33 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Ernest Albert and Margaret Mullinger.
Roll of Honour: Windsor NSW
Remembered: Panel 191, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Windsor Park Memorial Gates, Windsor NSW
Lancaster W4372 of 12 Squadron RAF took off at 1634 hours on 17 January 1943 from RAF Station Wickenby to bomb Berlin. No further news of the aircraft or crew was received.
The crew members of W4372 were:
Pilot Officer Wilfred Gordon Burrows (411739) (Navigator)
Sergeant James Stewart Hunter (1018437) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Andrew Mitchell (1003659) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Pilot Officer Robert Bruce Mullinger (411595) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Alan Frank Neale (401528) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Leslie Henry Richardson (1216870) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant Eric Bayly Withell (414713) (RNZAF) (Pilot)
The body of Sergeant Mitchell was washed ashore at Nymindegab, on the south west coast of Denmark, and is buried at Esbjerg, Denmark.
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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/28/11
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line