LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Kenneth Roy NERNEY
Service No: 433277
Born: Sydney NSW, 13 January 1925
Enlisted in the RAAF: 2 March 1943
Unit: No. 158 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Lissett
Died: Air Operations: (No. 158 Squadron Halifax aircraft NR195), Germany, 6 January 1945, Aged 19 Years
Buried: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bad Tolz, Bayern Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Ernest Winbourne Nerney and Margaret Elizabeth Nerney, of Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Dulwich Hill NSW
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1544 hours on the night of 6 January 1945 Halifax NR195 took off from Lissett detailed to bomb Hanau, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at 1850 hours at Grossauheim approximately 4 kms south south east of the centre of Hanau and on the east bank of the River Main. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of NR195 were:
Sergeant Ernest Henry MacKenzie Barr (1796037) (RAFVR) (Mid Gunner)
Sergeant Alexander Thomas Clyde (1595187) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Peter Samuel Cotterell (1815603) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant James Gore (1021154) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flight Lieutenant John Julius Krefter (429452) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Leslie Gilbert Morgan (338722) (RAF) (Navigator)
Flying Officer Kenneth Roy Nerney (433277) (Wireless 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, 166/29/186