Tasmanian War Casualties

World War 11 Casualties

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Barber Bramwell Rockliff

Service Number 408433 Death Date 25/06/1944 Place of Death Bussus Bussuel France Cause of Death Flying Battle Burial Communal Cem Abbeville France

Studio portrait of 408433 Aircraftman, later Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Bramwell Rockliff Barber of Launceston, Tas. Enlisting in the RAAF in May 1942, Flt Sgt Barber trained as an aerial gunner (rear gunner) under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) and was posted to 463 Squadron RAAF based at RAF Waddington, England. Flt Sgt Barber was killed on the night of 24/25 June 1944 when his Lancaster bomber, serial number LM571, radio call-sign JO-E (E-Easy) failed to return from an operational sortie over Prouville, France. After the war it was determined that JO-E was hit by flack bursts over the target, and was latter attacked by a German night-fighter, crashing at Busses-Bussuel (Somme). Six of the seven crew were killed, including Flt Sgt Barber, aged 20.

Photo Courtesy Australian War Memorial

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