Basil Trevor ROBERTS

Basil Trevor ROBERTS 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?

ROBERTS, Basil Trevor

Service Numbers:	Q130115, 434107
Enlisted:	25 February 1942, Men of eligible age were drafted into the Militia for Home Defense only.
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 455 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 18 January 1924
Home Town:	Townsville, Townsville, Queensland
Schooling:	Central State School, Townsville and Thornburgh College, Charters Towers
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Flying Battle, Risor, Norway, 15 October 1944, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	RIsor Civil Cemetery CWGC section
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Townsville WW2 HR, Maryborough No. 3 Wireless Air Gunners' School Memorial Wall

World War 2 Service

25 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q130115, 31 Infantry Battalion AMF
25 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Private, Q130115, 31 Infantry Battalion AMF, Men of eligible age were drafted into the Militia for Home Defense only.
26 Feb 1942:	Involvement Private, Q130115, 31 Infantry Battalion AMF, Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces
7 Oct 1942:	Discharged Private, Q130115, 31 Infantry Battalion AMF, Basil Trevor Roberts discharged from Army in order to enlist in the RAAF.
12 Oct 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 434107
12 Oct 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 434107, Aircrew Training Units, Brisbane, Queensland
3 Sep 1944:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 434107, No. 455 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
15 Oct 1944:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 434107, No. 455 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

Help us honour Basil Trevor Roberts's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by John Edwards

434107 Flying Officer Basil Trevor Roberts of Townsville, Qld, Navigator... (member of) a ship-busting crew flying Beaufighter aircraft with RAAF 455 Squadron operating out of RAF Langham station, UK. On 15 October 1944, their aircraft ditched into the sea after attacking enemy trawlers off Norway. Only the body of FO Roberts was recovered, and he is buried in the Risor Civil Cemetery on the south coast of Norway.

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia