LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Angus PATERSON
Service No: 411180
Born: Gourock Scotland, 20 June 19165
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 April 1941 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 454 Squadron, Berka III Landing Ground, Libya
Died: Air Operations: (No. 454 Squadron Baltimore aircraft F559), Aegean Sea, 30 December 1943, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James and Florence Paterson; husband of Florence Ethel Lola Paterson, of Bondi Junction, New South Wales, Australia.
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Column 278, Alamein Memorial, Egypt
Remembered: Panel 105, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
No. 454 Squadron Baltimore F559 went missing during operations in the western Aegean Sea on 30 December 1943. The crew members of F559 were:
Flying Officer Derek Norman Armitage (142457) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Claude Edward McEvoy (415540) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Laurence Keith Nicholl (415383) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Angus Paterson (411180) (Pilot)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
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, 166/329/265