Robert Lorraine Melville      Photo: Knud Riis    Updated: 04 JAN 2022

Airman: a014039.htm Surname: Melville Init: R L Rank: P/O Service: RAAF Sqdn: 15

P_link: p089.htm Plane: STI W7524 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Off Esbjerg, 5 km SE

Crash_d: d160742 Buried_d: b250742 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 11. 20

Den 16. juli 1942 styrtede STI W7524 "i havet 6,4 km SV for udløbet af Sneum Å".
(p089MACR - omkring her). (Kilde: Kortet Flystyrt ved Esbjerg af Torben Thorsen og Morten S. Jensen)
Flyet var på bombetogt til Lübeck.
De omkomne besætningsmedlemmer blev begravet i Esbjerg. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer Robert Lorraine Melville, 25 år, var søn af William Charles og Mabel Maud Melville, Coogee, New South Wales, Australia. (Kilde: CWGC)

6 flyvere fra STI W7524 blev begravet i Esbjerg. 2 blev ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.
8 flyvere.

On 16 July 1942 STI W7524 "crashed in sea 4 miles due SW of the mouth of River Sneum".
(p089MACR - about here). (Source: The map Air Crashes at Esbjerg by Torben Thorsen and
Morten S. Jensen) The plane was on a bombing raid on Lübeck.
The perished crew members were buried in Esbjerg. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer Robert Lorraine Melville, 25, was the son of William Charles and Mabel Maud Melville,
of Coogee, New South Wales, Australia. (Source: CWGC)      Duty nobly done
Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P2, P 211.   
6 airmen from STI W7524 were buried in Esbjerg. 2 were taken to German POW-Camps.

See No. 15 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * Short Stirling.
Stirling I W7524 LA-D took off from RAF Wyton at 18.40 hrs on 16 JUL 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this including Archive Report.)  8 airmen.