LUMSDAINE, Ernest Roy
| Service Number: | 402372 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer |
| Last Unit: | No. 464 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Bedfordshire, England, 8 January 1918 |
| Home Town: | Freshwater, Warringah, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wool Presser |
| Died: | Accidental, Chipping Warden, South Northamptonshire Borough, Northamptonshire, England, 6 January 1944, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Plot I/2. Grave 132B. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Manly War Memorial NSW, RAF Hunsdon Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Warrant Officer, 402372 | |
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| 19 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 402372, No. 464 Squadron (RAAF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 25 and the son of Russell Robberds Lumsdaine & Rose Victoria Lumsdaine of Harbord, New South Wales, Australia.
He was apparently born in Meppershall, a hilltop village in Bedfordshire near Shefford, Campton, Shillington, Stondon and surrounded by farmland. The village and the manor house are mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086.
He is honoured on the war memorial in St Mary's church there.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was flying a Mosquito fighter bomber from RAF Chipping Warden on a training flight, The Mosquito made a low pass over the airfield and came into contact with the ground before crashing into a hangar.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Ernest
is remembered on the RAF Hunsdon war memorial at Hunsdon Airfield
in Drury Lane, Hunsdon, East Hertfordshire, SG12 8NR
It was made by J. Day and Sons, Bishops Stortford and was unveiled on 23-06-2012, attended by: Air Commodore G. Waterfall, Colonel P. Keddy, Wing Commander N. Olney, Group Captain P. Wood, H. Townsend, V. Hitchen, T. Edwards, Reverend M. Dunstan, Reverend J. Ledger.
It is a polished black tablet set on a concrete tapering plinth with gilded lettering. The names are in four columns. Next to the above memorial is a tapering plinth with plaques on two faces and surmounted by an aircraft propeller.
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