Flt Lieut. Roger Brian Winspear AM

"One of the last veterans who experienced the first WWII air raid on Darwin has died. Brian Winspear, a Hobart resident, was 104.
Brian signed up for the war from Tasmania in 1939. He said later he was sure the blue uniform of the Royal Australian Air Force would impress his girlfriends, a comment typical of a man who went through life with a sense of humour that carried him through some very dark hours. For Brian was a gunner in bombers, an extremely hazardous profession that saw the personnel of many Australian squadrons die in their hundreds. Brian kept a long list of those who died in his units, and he was later tireless in having a memorial plaque placed on Darwin’s Esplanade to his fallen comrades."
Obituary: Darwin bombing veteran Brian Winspear | The Australian Naval Institute