MATHESON, Ross Henley
Service Number: | 413628 |
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Enlisted: | 12 September 1941 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | Overseas Training Brigade |
Born: | Largs Bay, South Australia, 8 August 1919 |
Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Petersham High School, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Projectionist at Empire Theatre, Cobar, New South Wales |
Died: | Flying Battle, Off United Kingdom, 19 November 1943, aged 24 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated: - Panel 193, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial |
World War 2 Service
12 Sep 1941: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 413628 | |
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12 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Sydney, NSW | |
12 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 413628 | |
19 Nov 1943: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 413628, Overseas Training Brigade, Killed in action aboard Wellington (X HZ129) when it was shot down by a Ju 88 over the Bay of Biscay during a Ferry Flight from Portreath to Rabat, Morocco Via Gibraltar. Unit:- Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit. |
19Nov1943
Ross Matheson was the pilot of RAF 15 OTU Wellington Mk X, H2129, which he was flying from Portreath Cornwall to Rabat Morocco. Two other Australians were on the flight (3 Australians out of 8 crew / passengers - F/ Sgt JR Forbes, F / Sgt JA McMurray). The Wellington was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by JU88 fighters from 2 / ZG1 at 11.05 or 11.20am. There is a German photo of the plane being shot down in the book, "Bloody Biscay". His brother, was also a RAAF pilot, W/O Ian Matheson, flying Catalinas and Liberators with the RAF in Burma.
Submitted 1 September 2015 by Bill Lane