LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer John Allan WELLER
Service No: 404518
Born: Sydney NSW, 21 February 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 13 September 1940 (at Brisbane QLD)
Unit: No. 115 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Witchford
Died: Air Operations: (No. 115 Squadron Wellington aircraft X3341), Germany, 28 March 1942, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Becklingen War Cemetery, Soltau, Niedersachsen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Harry and Agnes Myrtle Weller, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1953 hours on the night of 28 March 1942 Wellington X3341 took off from Marham detailed to bomb Lubeck, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. A Missing Research and Enquiry team reported “the aircraft crashed in a wood at Klecken 2 miles south west of Hamburg.” All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of X3341 were:
Sergeant William Ballard (1377131) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Edward Bolton Lawrence (1283153) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer James Brian Maher (402517) (Observer)
Sergeant Herbert Lloyd Suckling (1258955) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer John Allan Weller (404518) (Pilot)
Sergeant Patrick Wilson (619929) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
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, 163/63/144