February 18, 2012 at 1:57 pm
This aircraft crashed on 30th October 1944 near its base, demolishing a bungalow killing its occupants Mr and Mrs Wraith and a passing cyclist LAC. TS Nixon ,the pilot of the all Australian crew P/O Linklater was killed and two crew injured does anyone have any further information or photos regarding this crash please .
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th February 2012 at 11:58
many thanks for the information
By: Ross_McNeill - 18th February 2012 at 15:14
Hi,
Linklater’s A705 casualty file has been digitised and is open for web inspection
The NAA times out on direct URL links but if you put the following:
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/
Click search as guest
Basic search
In the keywords:
428723 Linklater
Then click on the icon for a sheaf of pages in his A705 it will open up.
Page 32 – 35 are the Form 765 crash report.
Regards
Ross