14 SQUADRON RAAF - Coastal reconnaissance, Avro Anson
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14 Squadron RAAF was formed at Pearce in Western Australia on 6 February 1939. Its first Commanding Officer was Flight Lieutenant C.W. Pearce. The Squadron was initially equipped with Avro Ansons.
When WW2 was declared in Europe, 14 Squadron commenced reconnaissance flights along the western coastline of Australia. It also carried out anti-submarine patrols to protect the troop ships carrying Australian troops to the Middle East.
14 Squadron was re-equipped with Mark IV Lockheed Hudsons in in mid 1940. On occasions, a small detachment was established at Albany.
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Operations and losses 10/05/1940 - 30/06/1940
Not all operations listed; those with fatal losses are.
16/05/1940: ? 1 Plane lost, 3 KIA, 1 MIA
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16/05/1940: ? 1 Plane lost, 3 KIA, 1 MIA
Three Avro Ansons left Point Cook at 1145 on 16 May 1940, enroute from Pearce to Camden, callsigns 8BNE, 8BNF and 8BNA. BNE eventually reached Cootamundra, but BNF and BNA attempted to return to Point Cook. BNA went missing and was found to have crashed on Mount Torbreck, near Eildon. The aircraft was of 14 Squadron RAAF.
Type: Avro Anson
Serial number: ?, A4-4
Operation: ?
Lost: 16/05/1940
Flying Officer Anthony A. Daniel, RAAF 243, age 22, 16/05/1940, Victoria Cremation Memorial, Australia. Place of Death: Mt Torbeck, Vic. Cause of Death: Accidental
Corporal Francis E. Hyland, RAAF 3515, [14 Sqn] age 27, 16/05/1940, Fawner Memorial Park Cemetery, Australia. Place of Death: Mt Torbeck, Vic. Cause of Death: Accidental
Corporal Herman F. Sass, RAAF 2560, [14 Sqn], age 23, 16/05/1940, Perth (Karrakatta) Crematorium, Australia. Place of Death: Near Mt Torbreck, Eilden Weir, Victoria (previous place of death: Off WA Coast)
Cause of Death: Accidental
Corporal Ivan L. Stowdor, RAAF 2474, [14 Sqn] age 25, 16/05/1940, missing in S.E. Pacific -Sydney Memorial. Place of Death: Off WA Coast
Cause of Death: Accidental
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Crash of an Avron Anson, A4-4 of 14 Squadron RAAF
On Mount Torbreck, near Eildon in Victoria on 16 May 1940
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Sources
14 Squadron RAAF
Air of Authority
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database
Australia at War
Australian War Memorial
Bail-outs for 1940
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Digger History -
(ANZAC) Australia and New Zealand at War
No 14 Squadron - RAAF Museum
RAF - Campaign Diary - The Battle of France (May-June 1940)
RAF Museum: British Military Aviation in 1940
RAF Order of Battle, France, 10th May 1940
Royal Air Force History Section
The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945
The Second World War - a day by day account
The War in France and Flanders, 1939-1940, by Major L.F. Ellis, 1954
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Books
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Links
Air Aces
Airwar over Denmark
Allied World War II Casualties in the Netherlands
Armée de l'Air - Order of Battle,
10th May 1940
Australian Wargraves
Axis History Factbook
Battle-of-Britain.com
De Belgen in Engeland 1940-1945 (in Dutch)
Belgian Aviation History Association Archaeological Team
British Aircraft Directory
British Aviation Archaeological Council - Books and research links
Canada's Air Force History
HMS Cavalier
Ciel de Gloire (in French)
RAF Squadrons
CWGC Cemeteries Germany
CWGC Cemeteries Netherlands
Czechoslovak airmen in
the RAF 1940-1945
Danish WW2 Pilots
Dutch Pilots in RAF Squadrons
Eagles Squadrons (American pilots in the RAF)
Håkans aviation page (from Sweden, in English)
'High flight', poem by John Gillespie Magee
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, poem by W.B. Yeats
Jagdgeschwader 27 (in German)
Luchtoorlog ('Arial War', in Dutch, with many photos)
Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth
The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945
Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum
The National Ex-Prisoners of War Association
Naval History.net
Nordic Aviation during WW2
Pilotfriend.com: aircraft of WW2
Polish Air Force 1940-1947 Operations Record Books
RAF Battle of Britain
RAF Upwood
De Slag om de Grebbeberg (Dutch)
Warbird Alley
War over Holland
World War II Aircraft wrecksites in Norway
www.bomber-command.de
Bills-Bunker.de
The Lancastershire Aircraft Investigation Team
Luftfahrt-Archäologie in Schleswig Holstein (in German)
North East Diary 1939-1945
Wartime Leicester and
Leicestershire
The Aerodrome -
Aces and Aircraft of World War 1
WW1 Cemeteries
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This page is dedicated to the men of 14 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force.
© Bart FM Droog / Rottend Staal Online 2008. Permission granted for use of the data gathered here for non commercial purposes, if this source is mentioned with a link to http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/index.html
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