Lewis Walter “Wal” Calder

In memoriam

427416 FLIGHT SERGEANT L. W. CALDER ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE 12TH MARCH 1945 AGE 23 BURIED AT THE TIME IN TRBOVLJE CIVIL CEMETERY WHOSE GRAVE IS NOW LOST GOODBYE FOR NOW MY DARLING

Transcript of military service for RAAF Number-- 427416, Flight Sergeant Calder. Parents- Walter Calder and Jessie Morrison married in 1914, Leederville, West Aust. Wife- Married, Edith Edna Preece, 12th Dec 1942 in Western Australia. He is commemorated Here Details of last mission - 148SQN RAF Halifax JD319 was on a mission to drop ammunition supplies to Yugoslavia Partisans when it crashed into trees on a mountain near Solcava and four of the crew were killed (17/10/1944): Flight Sergeant Charles Gibson Steele 424114 RAAF / Flight Sergeant Edwards 1601873 RAF / Sergeant Daker 1581777 RAF / Sergeant Clarke 1824674 RAF. Flight Sergeant Lewis Walter Calder 427416 RAAF survived the crash along with Sergeant Parker 1899056 RAF and Sergeant Bromage 1880610 RAF (as this member was uninjured he was evacuated from the area and taken back to Allied lines in Italy) Calder and Parker were injured and being cared for at a Partisan hospital facility in the vicinity of Ljubno, Yugoslavia which was attacked by German forces (12/03/1945) with FSGT Calder being killed (buried in Trbovlje Civil Cemetery, Slovenia) and SGT Parker taken POW (not on the CWGC - must have survived the war).

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