MACKNIGHT, Bruce Cowper
| Service Number: | 428879 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 October 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia , 17 July 1924 |
| Home Town: | North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Air operations, Koetschen, Germany, 14 January 1945, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Choloy War Cemetery, France Coll. grave 2. F. 1-2. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 428879 | |
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| 13 Oct 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 428879 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Lancaster NN722 of 9SQN RAF was shot down near Leuna, Merseburg, Germany on the 14th of January 1945 with 6 out of the 7 crewmen killed in the crash:
Flight Sergeant John Erskine Brown MacLean 434641 RAAF
Flying Officer Kenneth Alan Cook 418227 RAAF
Flight Sergeant Maurice James McNamara 429719 RAAF
Flight Sergeant Bruce Cowper MacKnight 428879 RAAF
Sergeant Howard Taylor 3011426 RAF
Flight Sergeant Robert Watt 1579768 RAF
Flight Sergeant Michael John Kerrigan 434528 RAAF survived and became a Prisoner of War but died on the 22nd of March 1945 in Leipzig, Germany from complications following amputation of his leg