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Pilot Officer Justin Francis Loughnan

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Pilot Officer Justin Francis Loughnan Veteran

Birth
Melbourne, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia
Death
14 Oct 1944 (aged 25)
Germany
Burial
Kleve, Kreis Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Add to Map
Plot
26. E. 13.
Memorial ID
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Pilot Officer, Royal Australian Air Force. Age: 25. 18119 (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Posting on Death: 115 Squadron (RAF), Witchford, Cambridgeshire.
Casualty Lancaster Aircraft HK599,
Shot down by Flak during a Raid on Duisburg, the Pilot Survived and was captured.
The crew members of HK599 were:
Pilot Officer Justin Francis Loughnan (18119) (Wireless Air Gunner).
Flying Officer Ronald Brown (154592) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Raymond Eayres (1590859) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer Harry Thomas Ford (154079) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Robert Hamilton (1566443) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Peter Herbert Frederick Hughes (1894389) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flying Officer R F Lister (152113) (RAF) (Pilot) PoW

He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Bendigo Vic, also his name is located at panel 125 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.

Son of Francis Joseph and Mary Josephine Loughnan, of Glen Iris, Victoria, Australia.
Pilot Officer, Royal Australian Air Force. Age: 25. 18119 (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Posting on Death: 115 Squadron (RAF), Witchford, Cambridgeshire.
Casualty Lancaster Aircraft HK599,
Shot down by Flak during a Raid on Duisburg, the Pilot Survived and was captured.
The crew members of HK599 were:
Pilot Officer Justin Francis Loughnan (18119) (Wireless Air Gunner).
Flying Officer Ronald Brown (154592) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Raymond Eayres (1590859) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer Harry Thomas Ford (154079) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Robert Hamilton (1566443) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Peter Herbert Frederick Hughes (1894389) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flying Officer R F Lister (152113) (RAF) (Pilot) PoW

He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Bendigo Vic, also his name is located at panel 125 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.

Son of Francis Joseph and Mary Josephine Loughnan, of Glen Iris, Victoria, Australia.

Inscription

SON OF JOSEPH AND MARY LOUGHNAN OF MELBOURNE "REQUIESCAT IN PACE"


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