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Son of Harry Francis and Mabel Warmer, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia.

Flight Sergeant Warmer was a member of 358 Squadron Royal Air Force, which was based at Jessore in February 1945. Its role was to drop supplies behind Japanese lines in  Burma (Myanmar), French Indo-China and Malaya using long-range Consolidated Liberator aircraft that had also been used as heavy bombers. That month, the squadron’s  pperations were hampered by poor weather conditions, mainly thick low cloud over drop zones. On 21 February 1945 Warmer was on board Aircraft ‘H’ EW188 captained by a  French Canadian pilot Flight Officer Cloutier, on a mission into central French Indo China. Somewhere over northern Myanmar, the squadron received a signal that the crew were  returning home but the plane then disappeared. Eric Warmer was officially listed as missing on 25 February 1945 and his death was deemed ‘accidental’. In that month, 358 Squadron RAF lost three aircraft and 18 men including Warmer. Of its 67 sorties, only 28 were successful.

AUSTRALIA'S NEW HONOR ROLL
Missing After Raid on Indo- China
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Warmer, of Wilson street, South Yarra, formerly of Horsham, have been informed that their only son, Flt. Sgt. Eric Warmer, 20 has been posted missing as a  result of air operations over Indo-China on February 25. Flt.-Sgt. Warmer, who was a wire-less operator, was educated at Stawell Technical School and Horsham High School. At  the time of enlisting he was employed by the Aircraft Production Commission, Fisherman's Bend. Mr. H. F. Warmer was formerly employed by Messrs Davies and Finlayson.