LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Robin Munro RYDER
Service No: 404384
Born: Brisbane QLD, 7 July 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 August 1940
Unit: No. 40 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 40 Squadron Wellington aircraft R1328), Germany, 12 September 1941, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Rheinberg War Cemetery, Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert Leslie and Ailsa Munro Ryder, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; grandson of Mrs. M. E. Ryder, of Hill End, Queensland
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 129, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1955 hours on 12 September 1941 Wellington R1328 took off from Alconbury to attack Frankfurt, Germany. The aircraft was last heard from on radio at 2206 hours indicating that the port engine had failed. The aircraft was lost with two crew members killed and four taken prisoner.
The crew members of R1328 were:
Squadron Leader John Croft Atkins (28124) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant B T Banner (RAF) PoW
Sergeant D F Darlow (96448) (RAFVR) PoW
Flight Sergeant A E Hough (552073) (RAF) PoW
Pilot Officer Robin Munro Ryder (404384) (Navigator)
Sergeant R C Thompson (1375121) (RAFVR) PoW
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 2 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1941, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1993
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9300 Ryder R M