WICKS, Brian Price
Service Number: | 416815 |
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Enlisted: | 11 September 1941 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 576 Squadron (RAF) |
Born: | Unley Park, South Australia, 21 July 1923 |
Home Town: | Unley, Unley, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Air collision, Ulceby, England, Ulceby, North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, 16 December 1943, aged 20 years |
Cemetery: |
Cambridge City Cemetery, United Kingdom Grave 13514. |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Black Forest Highgate Congregational Church Roll of Honour, Caboolture War Memorial, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
World War 2 Service
11 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 416815, Aircrew Training Units, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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11 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 416815 | |
16 Dec 1943: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 416815, No. 576 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45 | |
Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"...416815 Aircraftman Brian Price Wicks, RAAF, (later Flight Sergeant, 576 Squadron, RAF) of Unley, SA. He was a clerk prior to enlisting in September 1941. Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Wicks was the Air Gunner on aboard Lancaster LM332 which took off from RAF Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire, on the night on 16 December 1943 for a mission over Berlin. The aircraft collided with another shortly afterward and crashed near Ulceby Lincolnshire. All on board were killed. Flt Sgt Wicks was 20 years of age." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)