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Norman Lindsay NEWELL (1913-1944)

NORMAN LINDSAY NEWELL Flight Sergeant Norman Newell was the son of Norman and Mavis Newell and the husband of Margaret. An Accountant before joining up he was born in March 1913 at Paddington in Sydney. Norman enlisted in Sydney on 14 October ( records not digitized) Halifax LW 341 left Elvington on the night of 15/16 February 1944 during a bombing raid to Berlin the plane crashed into the Baltic Sea. CREW: RCAF Warrant Officer A F Edmunds - Pilot Sergeant B Coughlin - Flight Engineer Flying Officer R E Padget - Navigator Flight Sergeant J J Kennedy - Air Bomber Sergeant C Tyler - Wireless Air Gunner Flight Sergeant N L Newell - Mid Upper Gunner Flight Sergeant R W Wheeler - Rear Gunner The aircraft crashed in the Baltic and all crew were killed, Flight Sergeant Newell is buried in Kappel Churchyard (Row 9 Grave 8) on the Danish Island of Lolland. The other crew members have no known grave. Flight Sergeant Newell was found on 30 August having drifted ashore on Riddertofte Beach and buried on 1 September 1944 by Vicar Albert Madsen at the request of the German Wehrmacht The churchyard contains the graves of four Commonwealth airmen, Norman Newell and Flying Officer Peter Pritchard (), who died 11 June 1941, and two unidentified graves. Flight Sergeant Newell is remembered with Honour at the Australian War memorial and the Roll of Honour at Carlton, (Kogarah) NSW.