Henry Leslie Benjamin (Les) MORPHETT

MORPHETT, Henry Leslie Benjamin

Service Number: 407093
Enlisted: 27 May 1940
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: No. 102 Squadron (RAF)
Born: Glen Osmond, South Australia, 3 December 1917
Home Town: Unley, Unley, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Clerk
Died: Flying Battle, North Sea (60 miles NE Birtcham Newton, England), North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, 7 September 1941, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial
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World War 2 Service

27 May 1940: Involvement Sergeant, 407093, No. 102 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
27 May 1940: Enlisted Adelaide, South Australia
27 May 1940: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 407093
Date unknown: Involvement

North Sea


407093 Sergeant, 102 Sqn RAF in RAAF service, died in flying battle in the North Sea. Memorial Panel 127 at Glen Osmond Cemetery, SA.
A Whitely bomber based at RAF Topcliffe, Yorkshire, ditched into the North Sea off Bircham Newton in the early morning of 7 Sep 1941 on returning from a mission to Huls, Germany. They were never heard from again. The members of the crew were Pilot Officer John Rhodes Croucher of Belfast, Ireland; Flight Sgt John Glover of St James, Manitoba, Canada; Flight Sgt Alan Leonard Halsey of St Catherines, Ontario, Canada; Sgt John Richard Tugman of Bramwell, Cheshire, England and Sgt H L B Morphet of Glen Osmond, South Australia.

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