LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Hector Scott Keadle ROSS
Service No: 412832
Born: Oakey QLD, 13 April 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 July 1941 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 107 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 107 Squadron Mosquito aircraft NS886), France, 5 July 1944, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Bayeux War Cemetery, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Charles Simpson Scott Ross and Beatrice Charlotte Ross, of Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Tweed Heads NSW
Remembered: Panel 129, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2320 hours on the night of 4 July 1944 Mosquito NS886 took off to carry out an offensive patrol on enemy road movements in the Orleans-Tours area. The weather was very good with bright moonlight and thin stratus cloud varying between 1,000 to 3,000 feet. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft was lost and both crew members were killed.
The crew members of NS886 were:
Flying Officer Hector Scott Keadle Ross (412832) (Pilot)
Flying Officer Jack Roland Green (137152) (RAFVR (Navigator Bomb Aimer)
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, 166/36/299
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line