LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Eric Claude TURNER
Service No: 400945
Born: Richmond VIC, 25 October 1913
Enlisted in the RAAF: 11 November 1940
Unit: No. 104 Squadron (RAF), Detachment RAF Station Luqa, Malta
Died: Air Operations: (No. 104 Squadron Wellington aircraft Z8908), Central Mediterranean, 28 December 1942, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Eric Albert and Floris Elizabeth Turner; husband of Gwendoline Louisa Turner, of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 5, Column 2, Malta Memorial, Malta
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1814 hours on 28 December 1942 Wellington Z8908 took off from Luqa to attack the docks at Tunis. The aircraft was lost without trace.
The crew members of Z8908 were:
Sergeant Andrew Michael Coakey (778785) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Randall Tyrone Cottrell (39993) (RNZAF) (Pilot)
Warrant Officer II Samuel Jefferies (R/90773) (RCAF)
Flight Sergeant Cyril Neville Stansbury (1178924) (RAFVR)
Flight Sergeant Eric Claude Turner (400945) (Navigator Bomb Aimer)
Sergeant Nathaniel Van Gelder (1377653) (RAFVR)
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
Gunby D (David) and Pelham Temple, Royal Air Force Bomber Losses in the Middle East and Mediterranean, Volume 1 1939-1942, Midland Publishing UK, 2006
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9301, 400945