LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Albert Edward OAKLEY
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 36132 (RAF)
Born: Brisbane QLD, 24 February 1917
Enlisted in the RAF: 1938
Unit: No. 15 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Alconbury, Cambridgeshire
Died: Air Operations: (No. 15 Squadron Blenheim IV aircraft P6911), Belgium, 12 May 1940, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Munsterblitzen Communal Cemetery, Limburg, Belgium
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Albert and Maria Agathe Oakley, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Supplementary Panel 12, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Flying Officer Oakley was an Australian Cadet trained for the RAF who embarked for the UK on 31 December 1937.
On 12 May 1940, Blenheim P6911 took off from Alconbury to attack Maastricht. The aircraft crashed near Munsterbilzen (Limburg), 8 km south south east of Genk, Belgium and there were no survivors.
The crew members of P1169 were:
Sergeant Douglas John Avent (566960) (RAF) (Observer)
Flying Officer Albert Edward Oakley (36132) (RAF) (Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Denis Victor Woods (551566) (RAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Chorley W R Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 1 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1939-1940, Midland Counties Publications Leicester UK, 1992
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Newton, Dennis A Few of the Few: Australians and the Battle of Britain, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT 2600, 1990