Personnel Index - Detail
Torch Furness, Ken Carlyle, Malcolm Maxwell, Al Kalinski.
Details of Malcolm Maxwell's career have been provided by Alison Jessup.
Dad's service history in the UK from what he has told me is as follows:
16/8/41 - enlisted in RAAF and was posted as aircrew to Victor Harbor, South Australia (near Adelaide).
28/5/42 - Granted commision as a Pilot Officer.
July 1942 - Posted to UK to Poole near Bournemouth.
Posted to Cottesmore for conversion to Wellington IC's - crewed up but failed night flying exercises, so was going to be posted to Middle East.
1943 - Instead, posted to Navigation School Bridgnorth, then to Ardglass, Northern Ireland for flight training.
Graduated as navigator and posted where he crewed up with:
Pilot - Rob Walker
Bomb Aimer - John Sanderson
Gunner - John Newton
Mid Upper, Rear Gunner - Ed Smith (Canadian)
Engineer - Tom Rigby
6/6/44 - Stand by for D Day attack.
8/44 - Posted to Fiskerton and later to Fulbeck (49 Squadron).
35 Ops in total:
20 plus with R Walker crew
2-3 with fill-in crew
8-9 with Ken Carlyle (Canadian DFC) crew
He arrived back in Adelaide in July 45 and was married on 6 August 1945, the day the bomb hit Hiroshima.
He left the RAAF and became an accountant..
"Posted out" 2013