ATHERTON, John Carman
| Service Number: | 426486 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 July 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | CHILLAGOE, QLD, 19 January 1913 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Flying Accident, Fulstow, England, England, United Kingdom, 24 December 1943, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cambridge City Cemetery, United Kingdom Grave 13734. INSCRIPTION GAVE HIS LIFE AT DUTY'S CALL LOVED BY COMRADES ONE AND ALL, Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Chillagoe War Memorial, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 426486 | |
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| 17 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 426486 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 30 and the son of John Grainger Atherton and Gertrude Olive Atherton, of Teneriffe, Queensland, Australia.
From Bomber County Aviation Resource:-
On 24 Dec 1943 100 RAF Squadron’s Avro Lancaster (#ND327) aircraft, with seven aircrew on board, was in a mid-air collision with Avro Lancaster III (#ED730) at RAF Grimsby in Lincolnshire, crashing near Fulstow, 6 miles North of Louth. All seven of ND327’s aircrew and the seven ED730’s aircrew perished in the accident. The two Lancasters had taken flight from RAF GRIMSBY, near Waltham, for an air operation over Berlin, Germany.
The seven airmen of 100 Squadron’s Avro Lancaster (#ND327) were-
RAFVR Sergeant Gordon William CLAYDON,
RCAF Flight Sergeant George William GUEST,
RAFVR Sergeant Jack RAWSON,
RAFVR Sergeant Robert Walter THEOBALD,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant William Richard COOPER,
RAFVR Sergeant Alan Robert LAURENCE and
RCAF Sergeant Joseph Anthony JORDAN.
And the seven airmen of 550 Squadron’s Avro Lancaster III (#ED730) were-
RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Reginald Evariste LEGERE,
RAF Sergeant Leonard Frederick WRIGHT,
RAAF Flight Sergeant John Carman ATHERTON,
RAF Sergeant Hubert Frederick John WOODS,
RAFVR Sergeant John McCONNELL,
RAFVR Sergeant Montague Ewart GILES and
RAF Sergeant David Gwyn DAVIES.
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