LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Frank RICHARDSON
Service No: 402252
Born: Sydney NSW, 28 May 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 July 1940
Unit: No. 104 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Driffield
Died: Air Operations: (No. 104 Squadron Wellington aircraft W5362), North West Europe, 9 September 1941, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Frank and Mary Richardson, of Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 63, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 129, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2034 hours on 8 September 1941Wellington W5362 took off from Driffield 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 W5362 were:
Sergeant William Hamilton Anderson (997631) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Frank George Barrett (1281815) (RAFVR)
Flight Sergeant Albert Douglas Foch Craig MID (540277) (RAF)
Sergeant Frank Richardson (402252) (Pilot)
Sergeant Russell Johnston Mountier (925336) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Bernard Walter Robbens (955007) (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, 163/157/93