Graves Too Far Away: Australians in Bomber Command

Thursday 13 March 2014 - Dr Kathryn Spurling 

Boxing Day 1944, six Australians aged between 20 and 25 should have been standing in an Aussie backyard drinking a cold beer and burning sausages on the barbeque. Instead these young men were at RAF Binbrook being briefed for an operation to bomb rail yards at Cologne, an operation from which they did not return. By war’s end, thousands of Australian aircrew would lie in European cemeteries or would never be found. Join Dr Kathryn Spurling as she discusses the service and sacrifice of these men which has resonated for generations.