CREW MEMBER PROFILE |
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Surname: |
WALKER |
First Name/s: |
Walter Robertson "Jock" |
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Service No/s: |
1824013 |
Service: |
RAFVR |
Branch: |
Wireless Operator |
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Awards: |
1939-1945 Star, France & Germany Star, 1939-1945 War Medal |
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SERVICE RECORDS |
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Event |
Aircraft Flown |
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06 Apr 1943 |
No. 25 Aviation Candidates Selection Board (ACSB). |
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10 Apr 1943 |
Enlisted at Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, as Aircraftman Second Class (AC2), mustering as Air Crew Hand/Wireless Operator (ACH/WOp) |
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16 Apr 1943 |
No. 10 (Signals) Recruit Centre (RC), Blackpool, Lancashire. |
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05 Aug 1943 |
No. 3 Radio School (RS), Compton Bassett, Wiltshire. |
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20 Nov 1943 |
Remustered as Wireless Operator. |
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01 Dec 1943 |
No. 21 (T) Aviation Candidates Selection Board (ACSB); selected for training as Wireless Operator (Air) |
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09 Dec 1943 |
No. 4 Radio School (RS) Madley, ‘A’ Sqn, 1 Air Crew Wing, Herefordshire Wireless Operator (Air) (WOp/A). |
Anson tbc |
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10 Mar 1944 |
Remustered as WOP, awarded flying badge and promoted to Sergeant. |
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18 Jul 1944 |
No. 3 (Observer) Advanced Flying Unit ((O) AFU), Bobbington (Halfpenny Green), Staffordshire. |
Anson |
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22 Aug 1944 |
No. 85 Operational Training Unit (OTU), Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire; joins P F Sattler RAAF crew |
Wellington |
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07 Nov 1944 |
No. 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU), Sandtoft, Yorkshire. |
Lancaster |
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25 Nov 1944 |
No. 71 Base, Lindholme, Yorkshire; administrative Base for heavy bomber conversions under No. 7 Group. |
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14 Feb 1945 |
No. 576 Squadron, Fiskerton, Lincolnshire |
Lancaster |
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16 Mar 1945 |
Remustered as Wireless Operator (Air) 1 (WOp Air (1)). |
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16 Mar 1945 |
Nuremburg; lost in ME317 UL-C2, aged 20 |
Lancaster |
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576 Squadron FLYING RECORDS |
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Date |
Aircraft |
Code |
Flight Details |
T/O |
Land |
Flt Time |
Crew |
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11 Mar 1945 |
LM227 |
UL-I2 |
ESSEN |
1145 |
1705 |
5h20 |
P1 Flt Sgt P.F. Sattler RAAF |
NOTES: |
Built-up area - Flown in support of advancing Allied ground forces RUHR Load: All aircraft: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’, 16x 500lb bombs |
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12 Mar 1945 |
RA562 |
UL-B2 |
DORTMUND |
1305 |
1840 |
5h35 |
P1 Flt Sgt P.F. Sattler RAAF |
NOTES: |
Built-Up Area - Flown in support of advancing Allied ground forces. RUHR Load: All aircraft: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’ and 16x 500lb bombs. FIDO (fog dispersion) in use at Fiskerton. |
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15 Mar 1945 |
ME317 |
UL-C2 |
MISBURG |
1720 |
0105 |
7h45 |
P1 Flt Sgt P.F. Sattler RAAF |
NOTES: |
Deurag oil refinery Load: All aircraft: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’ and 1320x 4lb incendiaries. |
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16 Mar 1945 |
ME317 |
UL-C2 |
NUREMBURG |
1720 |
FTR |
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P1 Flt Sgt P.F. Sattler RAAF |
NOTES: |
Built-up area Load: All aircraft: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’ and 1470x 4lb incendiaries. Failed to return. Flt Sgt P F Sattler RAAF PoW Sgt W E A Jeffery killed Fg Off N Whiteley PoW Sgt P F Garner PoW Sgt W Walker killed Sgt K G Durston killed Sgt D F Wood killed Nuremburg; lost in ME317 UL-C2, aged 20 Shot down probably by a Bf-110 flown by Maj Herbert Lutje of Stab NJG-6 at 2133 and 15,000 ft, some 30 km SSW Nuremburg, or by a Ju-88 flown by Oblt Erich Jung of 5/NJG2 (one of eight ‘Anschluss’ that night) in the Ansbach area at 15,000 ft, tbc. 4 crew killed, 3 taken PoW. The aircraft was attacked from below and the incendiaries caught fire. Losing control, the skipper ordered the crew to abandon the Lancaster. Buried initially at Weissenbronn Civil Cemetery, Grave 1, before being reinterred on 08 Aug 47 at Durnbach War Cemetery, plot 6.J.11 The location of his burial is curious. The aircraft is reported have come down, and the other deceased crew buried, to the south of Nuremburg but Weissenbron is 77 km to the northwest. “YEARS ROLL ON BUT MEMORIES STAY AS NEAR AND DEAR AS YESTERDAY” |
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PERSONAL INFORMATION |
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