DAVIS, George Edward
| Service Number: | 437781 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 27 March 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 12 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Port Pirie, South Australia, 22 May 1924 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Flying Battle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, 4 March 1945, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cambridge City Cemetery, United Kingdom Grave 15105. Personal Inscription HIS DUTY FEARLESSLY AND NOBLY DONE. EVER REMEMBERED, Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Port Germein Roll of Honour WW2 Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 27 Mar 1943: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 437781, No. 12 Squadron (RAAF) | |
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| 27 Mar 1943: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 27 Mar 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 437781 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Flight Sergeant Davis was 20 and the son of Stacey Algernon and Jane Eliza Davis, of Port Pirie, South Australia.
His Lancaster bomber was shot down by intruder between East Stockwith and Blyton during a night training flight. The crew of 7, 5 of whom were Australian Flight Sergeants, were killed.
A relatively new memorial on the village green at East Stockwith incorporating a propeller blade from the actual aircraft remembers a 12 Sqn crew lost on 03-04/03/45.
Lancaster ME323 PH-P had departed Wickenby for a routine night training flight.
It was intercepted near Hull by a Luftwaffe Intruder captained by Lt Gunther Wolf (IX/NJG5) and shot down for his 4th Abschusse at 0108.
The aircraft crashed between the villages of East Stockwith and Blyton at 0110 with the loss of all seven crew.
This loss was one of the many victims of the Luftwaffe's infamous but ill fated Unternehman Gisela (Operation Gisela) when large numbers of enemy aircraft on "Intruder Ops" infiltrated the bomber stream returning to the UK from Ops Kamen. They wrought havoc shooting down multiple aircraft across the length of the East Coast of England but sustained significant losses themselves in what was regarded as the Lutfwaffe's "last ditch action" at this stage of WWII
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