LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Jeffry WEEDEN
Service No: 413054
Born: Tumut NSW, 7 July 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 15 august 1941
Unit: No. 58 Operational Training Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 58 Operational training Unit Spitfire aircraft P8964), Scotland, 2 July 1943, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Grangemouth (Grandsable) Cemetery, Stirlingshire, Scotland
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Harold Reginald and Myrtle Grace Weeden, of Tumut, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Tumut NSW
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Commonwealth Bank of Australia Honour Rolls, Sydney NSW
On a non-operational day training flight on 2 July 1943, Spitfire P8694 crashed at Drip Farm Dripmoss, West Haugh, about two and a half miles north west of Stirling, Scotland. The accident was caused by unauthorised low flying.
Flight Sergeant Weeden was authorised to practice using the Cine Gun camera on another Spitfire between Stirling and Balado Bridge. After completing the exercise, Flight Sergeant Weeden proceeded to the low flying areas near Stirling, and after flying in the area for several minutes, the aircraft struck the ground at high speed and he was killed.
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, 166/43/246
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line