LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Bernard Rinian Roy RUTHERFORD
Service No: 406540
Born: Wolverhampton England, 22 August 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 January 1941(at Perth WA)
Unit: No. 15 Advanced (Pilot) Flying Training Unit RAF
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 15 Advanced (Pilot) Flying Training Unit Oxford aircraft L9647), Yorkshire, 19 May 1942, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Leconfield (St Catherine) Churchyard, Yorkshire UK
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Stamford Roy and Laura May Rutherford, of West Perth, Western Australia. His brother Thomas Alan Rutherford (406626) also fell.
Roll of Honour: Perth WA
Remembered: Panel 129, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Cenotaph Undercroft, State War Memorial, Kings Park WA
Remembered: Honour Avenues, Kings Park WA
On 19 May 1942, Sergeant Rutherford flying solo in Oxford L9647 was killed when the aircraft crashed at Burton Fleming, East Yorkshire.
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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line record A9301, 406540
On Line Sources
Bibliography:
Gaston, Bruce DFC (406646), Harry Horner DFC OAM (406595), Raymond Storer (406666) (Editors), Aircrew for the Duration: of and by members of RAAF EATS Courses 10, 11, 12 & 13, Gaston Horner and Storer, Nedlands WA, 1990