MARTIN, Eric Bruce
| Service Number: | 280651 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 8 January 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | No. 10 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Semaphore, South Australia, 5 September 1916 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Flying Battle, Spanish Coast, 31 July 1942, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 8 Jan 1940: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 280651, No. 10 Squadron (RAAF) | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Jan 1940: | Enlisted Parafield | |
| 8 Jan 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 280651 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Rootsweb ID: I582047 Birth Record 5 Sept 1916 in Semaphore, South Australia
SA Births 1907 - 1928. Book : 985 Page : 53 District : PtA.
Father: Eric MARTIN and Mother: Marguerite Augusta Martin (nee WALLER).
8/1/1940 enlisted at Parafield, SA
*** service record needs to be ordered through National Archives of Australia ***
Flight Lieutenant in 10th Squadron (RAAF)
31/7/1942 killed in flying battle
On 31 July 1942 disappeared in the Galician coast Sunderland W3994, had departed from Mount Batten at 02:15 in antisubmarine patrol and did not turn to hear the device. The aircraft took the maximum load of anti-submarine bombs and was to carry out a patrol along the Spanish coast just outside territorial waters. No signals were received from the aircraft which failed to return from the mission.
The entire crew disappeared:-
Short Sunderland Mk II; W3994, RB-X; 10 Sqn RAAF
F/Lt Eric Bruce Martin - 280651 - RAAF
F/O Arthur Francis O'Dwyer - 405185 - RAAF
P/O Ernest F. Hamilton Frith - 403653 - RAAF
F/O Arthur Reginald Meaker - 416275 - RAAF
F/O Christopher E. Thomas Bartram - 401759 - RAAF
Sgt David Bell -. 406430 - RAAF
Sgt John Russell Mullins -. 4701 - RAAF
AC1 Nevil Thomas Cuddihy - 14521 - RAAF
Sgt Clive Thomas Bingham -. 4559 - RAAF
AC1 Garnet William White - 13891 - RAAF
Sgt Herbert Henry Fealy. - 11069 - RAAF
LAC. Charles L. Kenneth Johnson - 34754 - RAAF
"Sunderland III, W3999 of No 10 (RAAF) Squadron exploded after making a successful forced landing on the sea after being attacked by an Arado Ar 196 during an ASR patrol." courtesy of Malcolm
NO known grave.
Commemorated on Panel 108 of the Air Force Memroial, Runnymede, Surrey, England.
His name is commemorated on Panel 100 at the Australian War Memorial,
Canberra, ACT.
Sourced and submited by Julianne T Ryan. 13/6/2016. Lest we forget.
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