Flying Officer Charles Stewart Bogle
- Rank
- Flying Officer
- Service number
- 427289
- Unit
- Royal Australian Air Force Attached 90 Squadron Royal Air Force
- Cause of death
- Killed in Action
- Place of death
- Becklingen, Germany
- Date of death
- 13 August 1944
- Age
- 21
- Plaque number
- L279
- Dedicated by
- Family on 14 November 2015
- More information
Biography presented during plaque dedication:
Flying Officer Charles Stewart Bogle, who was known to the family as Stewart, was the second son of Charles Herman and Jean Elizabeth Bogle. He was one of two sons and a daughter, and they lived at Narndee Station, Mount Magnet.
He was educated initially by correspondence and later attended St Ildephonsus College, New Norcia and Guildford Grammar, Guildford.
He left school at sixteen years of age, returning to Narndee Station, and then on to Billabalong Station near Mullewa as a jackaroo.
Later he returned to Narndee station to inform his father that he wanted to enlist as a pilot and, to enhance his prospects, he learnt morse code by practicing with the postmaster at Mount Magnet.
Charles enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on 21 June 1942. After training as a pilot, he was eventually posted to 90 Squadron Royal Air force, flying Lancaster bombers.
Flying Officer Charles Stewart Bogle, service number 427289, was killed in action on 13 August 1944 during a flying battle over Germany.
He was 21 years of age and is buried, along with the rest of his aircraft comrades, at Becklingen War Cemetery, Luneburg, Germany.