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PRIDMORE, Walter Noel
Service Number: | 429832 |
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Enlisted: | 12 September 1942 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 12 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Alberton, South Australia, 25 December 1923 |
Home Town: | Pennington, Charles Sturt, South Australia |
Schooling: | Adelaide Technical High School, Adelaide, South Australia |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Flying Battle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, 4 March 1945, aged 21 years |
Cemetery: |
Cambridge City Cemetery, United Kingdom Grave 15106. Personal Inscription HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE. EVER REMEMBERED , Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom |
Memorials: | Adelaide Technical High School Old Scholars WW2 Honour Roll, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Flinders Park Staff of the South Australian Gas Company Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, St Clair Woodville High School Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
12 Sep 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide | |
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12 Sep 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 429832 | |
4 Mar 1945: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 429832, No. 12 Squadron (RAAF) | |
Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Flight Sergeant Pridmore was 21 and the son of Henry and Lily May Pridmore, of Pennington, South Australia.
Lancaster bomber ME 323, Code named PH-P, of 12 Squadron 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.
East Stockwith, Lincolnshire
A relatively new memorial on the village green incorporates a propeller blade from the actual aircraft and 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