Flt Lt John Edward Goddard

The aircraft flew from Little Staughton, where a couple of months later my Father was to arrive as an MT section Corporal

Moggy

According to ‘RAF Evaders’ by Oliver Clutton-Brock, DeBeer and Mackenzie were captured and held in Fort de Tourneville, a prison fort near Le Havre. They were, however, liberated by British 49th Dicvision 4 days later.

If the survivors evaded capture then there should be ‘escape & evasion’ reports for each of them held in the National Archives, Kew, London. It is possible to obtain copies of these documents either by visiting the National Archives and making your own copies or by ordering the documents via the National Archives website. Charges apply in both cases.

The names of the two airmen who evaded were:
P/O G MACKENZIE & F/O A G DEBEER both presumably RAF or RAFVR

There was one other Australian onboard P/O W N DANIEL RAAF Svce No. 423996 – his Service Record can be requested to be digitised as detailed in earlier post from National Archives of Australia website.

Thanks for your help. 🙂

Bomber Command Losses 1944 gives him as pilot on Lancaster III PB123 (6O-O) in a raid on Le Havre, and is presumed to have crashed in the target area killing six of the eight crew (the survivors evading capture). Three of the deceased have no known grave.

Flood

Thats great thanks

I am trying to find out any information on Flt Lt Goddard RAAF all i know about him is from the Australian war memorial died 08/09/1944 he was on 582 Sqn, i was wondering what mission he was on what aircraft he was flying etc etc.

John Edward GODDARD DFC, Son of Bertrand Decimus Goddard and Olive Lilian Kate Goddard, of Brookvale, New South Wales, Australia was killed in France. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial which generally (but not always) means that his body was not recovered and he has no known grave.

You might be able to obtain further details with regard to his DFC award by searching in the online editions of the London Gazette http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveSearch.asp?WebType=0

The following three files regarding this airman are available via the National Archives of Australia website. You may request digital copies to be made available online at no charge (normally takes about 4 weeks for them to become available for viewing) or you can place an order for copies to be sent to you but there is a charge for this service.

Go here http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/recordsearch.html and select ‘Search as a guest’ then in the Keywords box type only Goddard and his service no. which is 420658 then click on search. The three files below should come up and you can follow the screens to order them.

Title
GODDARD JOHN EDWARD : Service Number – 420658 : Date of birth – 19 Dec 1922 : Place of birth – HESWALL ENGLAND : Place of enlistment – SYDNEY : Next of Kin – GODDARD BERTRAND
Series number
A9300 Control symbol
GODDARD J E Contents date range
1939 – 1948

Access status
Open Location
Canberra Barcode no
5371559

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Title
GODDARD John Edward 420658
Series number
AWM65 Control symbol
2330 Contents date range
1943 – 1945

Access status
Open Location
Australian War Memorial Barcode no
517991

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Title
420658, Flight Lieutenant, GODDARD, John Edward – Casualty – Repatriation
Series number
A705 Control symbol
166/16/425 Contents date range
1944 – 1948

Access status
Open Location
Canberra Barcode no
1069336