John Alexander BRYDEN

John Alexander BRYDEN Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

BRYDEN, John Alexander

Service Number:	404601
Enlisted:	11 October 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Pittsworth, Queensland, Australia, 21 November 1915
Home Town:	Warwick, Southern Downs, Queensland
Schooling:	Warwick Boys Central and High Schools, Warwick Technical College, Gatton Agricultural College
Occupation:	Fruit Grower
Died:	Flying Battle, Over Düsseldorf, Germany, 11 September 1942, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany Plot 4. Row A. Grave 6
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Warwick Roll of Honour WWII, Warwick War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 404601
11 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 404601
9 May 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 404601, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)

Help us honour John Alexander Bryden's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Richard and Martha Bryden, of Warwick, Queensland, Australia.

FOR FREEDOM, LIBERTY, HOME AND COUNTRY, HE GAVE HIS ALL

Sgt. Pilot J. A.. Bryden
TOOK PART IN RAIDS ON GERMANY
Sergeant Pilot John Alexander Bryden, 26-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Bryden, of Wantley-street, is mis ing in air operations over Germany, Official advice to this effect has been received by his parents from the Air Board, Melbourne. He is the second member of the family missing as the result of War operations, a younger brother, Warrant Officer Richard Bry den, having been posted missing in Malaya.

Sergeant Pilot Bryden, who is well known in Warwick, where he lived for the greater part of his life, was born at Pittsworth, but received his early education at the Warwick Central School. Later he attended the Warwick Technical College and High School, from where he won a scholarship to the Gatton Agricultural College. Following his studies at that institution he took over a banana plantation in the Mackay district. He enlisted in Rockhampton in June, 1940, following which he returned to Warwick, where he under went preliminary studies for three months before being called up for duty. After training in New South Wales and Queensland he graduated from a Queensland station in July last year, leaving during the following month for overseas.

Sergeant Pilot Bryden was a member of an Australia Air Force Wellington squadron which took a full share in July's concentrated R.A.F. raids against Germany. Writing to his parents some time ago concerning one of these raids Sergeant Pilot Bryden said: "There is no doubt that these trips are each one of them a great adventure and you get a real kick out of doing a job well, be sides the spice of danger which is added for every minute of the trip. Believe me. I am enjoying my job, and now that we are really taking a very active part in the war I feel as if I am really doing my share and I am glad to be in it at a time when the great est effort is to be made by the R.A.F."

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia