LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Geoffrey Herbert Brandon SLINN
Service No: 423263
Born: Burwood NSW, 16 November 1912
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 June 1942
Unit: No. 138 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Tempsford
Died: Air Operations: (No. 138 Squadron Stirling aircraft LK151), North West Europe, 27 November 1944, Aged 32 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Herbert and Lillias Slinn; husband of Dorothy Ada Slinn, of Epping, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Epping NSW
Remembered: Panel 258, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 130, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 27 November 1944 Stirling LK151 took off from Tempsford on a special mission to drop supplies to the Danish resistance and an agent, at a position 13 kms east north east of Assens. The supplies drop position was approximately 2 kms north of Glamsbjerg on the Danish Isle of Fyn. The drop was successfully completed, but there were no further messages from the aircraft and it did not return to base. The aircraft was shot down by a Ju-88 and following post war enquiries and investigations, it was recorded in 1949 that the missing crew members had no known graves.
The crew members of LK151 were:
Flight Sergeant Arthur Henry Bedggood (1853408) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Reginald Hughes Berrett (1890825) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Pilot Officer Charles Elleman (186688) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Thomas Patrick McHale (J/24741) (RCAF) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Kenneth Naylor (1622999) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Geoffrey Herbert Brandon Slinn (423263) (Air Bomber)
Flight Lieutenant Reginald Ronald Witham DFC (425800) (Pilot)
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, 166/37/636