Douglas Fitzgerald BICKFORD

BICKFORD, Douglas Fitzgerald

    Service Number: 428902
    Enlisted: 22 October 1942
    Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
    Last Unit: No. 158 Squadron (RAF)
    Born: Greenwich, New South Wales, Australia, 3 March 1924
    Home Town: Gordon, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales
    Schooling: Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia
    Occupation: Technical Trainee (Engineering)
    Died: Halifax Bomber shot down over Nuremberg in a night bombing raid, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, 31 March 1944, aged 20 years
    Cemetery: Hanover War Cemetery
    Grave Reference 4 F 5,
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Wahroonga Knox Grammar School Old Boys' War Memorial
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    World War 2 Service

    22 Oct 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 428902, Aircrew Training Units
    22 Oct 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 428902
    31 Mar 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 428902, No. 158 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45, mid-upper gunner crewing LW724, radio call sign NP-S, during the air attack on Nuremberg on the night of 30 March 1944. Their plane was shot down by a German aircraft and crashed near Herborn-Seelbach. Bomb AImer FO Shanahan bailed out and was taken prisoner of war in Germany. The rest of the crew were killed.

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    Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

    Douglas Fitzgerald BICKFORD was born on 3rd March, 1924 in Greenwich, Sydney, NSW

    His parents were Charles Reginald BICKFORD & Kathleen May JONES who married in Western Australia in 1920

    His father Charles Reginald BICKFORD was a Lieutenant in the Field Company Engineers during World War 1

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