LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Graham Brindley John ROBERTSON
Service No: 412717
Born: Katoomba NSW, 11 February 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 July 1941
Unit: 19th Bomber Squadron (USAAF)
Died: Air Operations (19th Squadron Marauder aircraft 40-1433), Iron Range QLD, 13 September 1942, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Mareeba Old Cemetery, Queensland
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Seymour Robertson and Constance Beatrix Robertson; husband of Dorothy Frances Robertson, of Hay, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Carrathool NSW
Remembered: Panel 134, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Hay War Memorial Hall and Honour Roll, Hay NSW
On 13 September 1942, Pilot Officer Robertson, a Pilot, was killed in an aircraft accident at Iron Range, Queensland. On return from the Squadron’s first operational mission, Marauder 40-1433, one of nine aircraft on the mission, is believed to have landed short of the air strip, blown a tyre and run into a ditch. There are other slightly varying versions of the incident, but Pilot Officer Robertson, the Second Pilot, was the only crew member killed.
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 A9300, ROBERTSON G B J
Ozatwar Website
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line