LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Ronald Douglas John TREGONNING
Service No: 401839
Born: Hawthorn VIC, 11 May 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 31 March 1941
Unit: No. 2 Squadron, Darwin NT
Died: Air Raid: Darwin, 30 July 1942, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Adelaide River War Cemetery, NT
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Rennie Douglas and Alice Tregonning, of Canterbury, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Camberwell VIC
Remembered: Panel 98, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
During an air attack on Darwin by 27 enemy bombers, which damaged the bomb and fuel dumps, Flying Officer Ron Tregonning was killed instantly in a slit trench as bombs also struck the domestic site at Rapid Creek.
Extract from Bennett, J. (John William) Highest Traditions: the history of No. 2 Squadron RAAF, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1995 – Page 167
No. 2 Squadron lost Hudson A16-234 (Flying Officer Robert Carl Muecke (283858) (Pilot) on 30 July 1942.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/59/69
Bibliography:
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Anson, Hudson and Sunderland in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1992