LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Norman Bayne RUTHERFORD AFC
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 68194 (RAFVR)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: date unavailable
Unit: No. 627 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Woodhall Spa
Awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 627 Squadron Mosquito IV aircraft DZ635), Germany, 18 September 1944, Aged 31 Years
Buried: Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William Ewart Gladstone Rutherford and Elizabeth Rutherford; Husband of Anita Ann Delamere Rutherford, of Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
On 18 September 1944, Mosquito DZ635 took off from Woodhall Spa at 1903 hours to attack Bremerhaven. At 2210 hours, the aircraft crashed at Schiffdorf on the eastern outskirts of Bremerhaven and both crew members were killed.
The crew members of DZ635 were:
Flight Lieutenant Norman Bayne Rutherford AFC (68194) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Pilot Officer Frederick Herbert Stanbury (54874) (RAF) (Navigator)
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record AWM65, 4515