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No. 467 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force    No. 467 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force was formed at Scampton on the 7th November 1942. Although intended as an Australian squadron most of the original personnel were British. 467 Squadron flew 3,833 sorties, dropping 17,578 tons of bombs with the loss of 118 aircraft and 760 personnel. Airfields at which No. 467 Squadron were based: Scampton 7 Nov 1942 to 23 Nov 1942 Bottesford 23 Nov 1942 to Nov 1943 Waddington. Nov 1943 onwards   12th May 1942 Funeral 30th October 1942 Relocation 25th Feb 1943 Aircraft Lost 27th Jul 1943 Aircraft Lost 24th Aug 1943 467 Squadron Lancaster lost 29th Dec 1943 Aircraft Lost 29 January 1944 Lancaster lost 29th Jul 1944 467 Squadron Lancaster lost 13th Aug 1944 Aircraft Lost 30th Aug 1944 467 Squadron Lancaster lost 20th Sep 1944 467 Squadron Lancaster lost 3rd Jan 1945 467 Squadron Lancaster lost 5th January 1945 Lancasters collide over France 15th August 1945 Tiger Force If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Logbooks Do you have a WW2 Flying Log Book in your possession? If so it would be a huge help if you could add logbook entries to our new database. Thank you. View Logbook entries Those known to have served with No. 467 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War 1939-1945. Bremner Peter Ross. W.O. Dixon Joe. Sgt Dolby Bernard Henry. Sgt Dolby Bernard H.. Sgt. Gates Robert Ingersole. Flt.Sgt. (d.29th June 1943) Grey Frank. Sgt. (d.18th August 1943) Peggs Geoffrey Charles. Sgt. (d.28th July 1943) The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of No. 467 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web. 22nd April 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. 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There are:2013 items tagged No. 467 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. Sgt Joe Dixon 467 Sqn Joe is very much alive at this time and will be 107 this year. He served in the fire service before and after the war but volunteered for aircrew and served as a Sgt Flight Engineer with 467 Sqn from 1946 to 1945. Joe Dixon Add to this record. Sgt. Bernard H. Dolby No. 467 Squadron On 29 June 1943, WOp/Ag Bernard Dolby was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Wilhelm Herget of the Stab I./NJG 4 (detached to 3./NJG 1), who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Venlo airfield. Bernard was taken prisoner and spent the rest of the war as a POW. Twan Vermeer Add to this record. Flt.Sgt. Robert Ingersole Gates 467 Squadron (d.29th June 1943) Robert Gates served with the Royal Australian Air Force He was born on the 9th of August 1920 in Bridgetown, WA and enlisted on the 21st of July 1941 in Perth, WA. He gave his Next of Kin as Caroline Gates. He served with 467 Squadron at RAF Bottesford and was killed on the 29th of June 1943, but his body was was not located at the crash site.There is a group who are now doing research where the Lancaster was discovered, hopefully, they may find his remains. The Crew were: Flt Sgt R.I.Gates, missing. Sgt G.R.S Cayless, buried at Jonkerbos War Cemetery Nijmegen Sgt H.H Mooney, buried at Jonkerbos War Cemetery Nijmegen Sgt E Pike taken POW B.H Dolby taken POW Sgt T.W.A Copeland RCAF buried at Jonkerbos War Cemetery Nijmegen Sgt J.H Hole buried at Jonkerbos War Cemetery Nijmegen Andy Spring Add to this record. Sgt. Frank Grey 467 Squadron (d.18th August 1943) Sergeant Frank Grey was my great uncle. He served as a bomb aimer on a Lancaster bomber in 467 Squadron under Bomber Command and was based at RAF Bottesford. He was shot down on 18th of August 1943 in the famous raid on Peenemunde, the top secret weapons research area where the Nazis were developing the V1 and V2. Frank and the crew all perished. The raid was carried out in moonlight and at unusually low altitude to ensure maximum accuracy and damage. A diversionary attack on Berlin to distract enemy fighters had run its course and by the time they began their bombing runs enemy fighters were on the scene and the bombers of No 5 group, illuminated by the fires on the ground and moonlight paid a heavy price. Add to this record. Sgt. Geoffrey Charles Peggs 467 Sqdn. (d.28th July 1943) My uncle, Sgt Peggs, was an engineer in the RAFVR. He was killed in action on 28th July 1943 on his first mssion with 467 Squadron, which was based at RAF Waddington. He is commemorated on Panel 161 at Runnymede. Geoff Add to this record. 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