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BICKFORD, Douglas Fitzgerald
Personal Details
Service Number: | 428902 |
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Enlisted: | 22 October 1942 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 158 Squadron (RAF) |
Born: | Greenwich, New South Wales, Australia, 3 March 1924 |
Home Town: | Gordon, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Technical Trainee (Engineering) |
Died: | Halifax Bomber shot down over Nuremberg in a night bombing raid, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, 31 March 1944, aged 20 years |
Cemetery: |
Hanover War Cemetery Grave Reference 4 F 5, |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Wahroonga Knox Grammar School Old Boys' War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
22 Oct 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 428902, Aircrew Training Units | |
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22 Oct 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 428902 | |
31 Mar 1944: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 428902, No. 158 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45, mid-upper gunner crewing LW724, radio call sign NP-S, during the air attack on Nuremberg on the night of 30 March 1944. Their plane was shot down by a German aircraft and crashed near Herborn-Seelbach. Bomb AImer FO Shanahan bailed out and was taken prisoner of war in Germany. The rest of the crew were killed. |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Douglas Fitzgerald BICKFORD was born on 3rd March, 1924 in Greenwich, Sydney, NSW
His parents were Charles Reginald BICKFORD & Kathleen May JONES who married in Western Australia in 1920
His father Charles Reginald BICKFORD was a Lieutenant in the Field Company Engineers during World War 1