Ronald Charles NOICE

Serial Number: NZ429800
RNZAF Trade: Ground Wireless Operator, then Bomb Aimer - aka Air Bomber (Armament)
Date of Enlistment:21st of August 1942
Date of Demob: 25th of December 1945
Rank Achieved:Flying Officer
Flying Hours: 484.15hrs
Operational Sorties: 30 Ops

Date of Birth: 24th of February 1924, at Matiere, Taranaki
Personal Details: Married to Pearl

Today: Currently lives in Leamington, Cambridge. Ron was the Secretary of the Waikato Branch of the Prisoners of War Association till its recent disbandment.

Connection with Cambridge: Ron moved to Cambridge in the 1970's


Service Details:
As below, but an interview is planned soon too:

Ron Noice's Units:

  Unit Served On Dates
No. 8 B&G Lethbridge
No. 2 Air Observer School, Edmonton, Canada
No. 9 (O) AFU, Penrhos
No. 9 (O) AFU Llandwrog
No. 83 OTU, Peplow
No. 1655 MTU, Warboys
No. 1655 MTU, Wyton
PFF NTU, Warboys
No. 405 Squadron, Gransdon Lodge
POW Camp, Moosburg, Germany
No. 227 Squadron RAF, Graveley
6th of Sept1943 - 26th of Nov 1943
29th Nov 1943 - 14th of January 1944
10th of June 1944 - 30th of June 1944
30th of June 1944 - 1st of August 1944
16th of August 1944 - 4th of Sept 1944
6th of September 1944 - 17th of Sept 1944
17th of September 1944 - 25th of Sept 1944
25th of September 1944 - 4th of Oct 1944
6th of October 1944 - 20th of Feb 1945
24th of February 1945 - 8th of May 1945
25th of June 1945 - 7th of Sept 1945
Ron Noice's Aircraft Flying Hours
Unit Served On
Type
Day
Night
Ops

No. 8 B&G Lethbridge

No. 2 Air Observer School, Edmonton, Canada

No. 9 (O) AFU, Penrhos

No. 9 (O) AFU Llandwrog

No. 83 OTU, Peplow

No. 1655 MTU, Warboys

No. 1655 MTU, Wyton

PFF NTU, Warboys

No. 405 Squadron, Gransdon Lodge

Liberation - as passenger

No. 227 Squadron RAF, Graveley

 

 

Avro Anson
Bristol Blenheim

Avro Anson

Avro Anson

Vickers Wellington

Airspeed Oxford

DH Mosquito

HP Halifax

Avro Lancaster

Avro Lancaster

Douglas Dakota

Lancaster

Total Day + Night

Total Altogether

33.35
15.10

26.15

30.45

12/30

12.35

7.25

2.15

6.10

53.35

3.20

78.05

281.40 +

484.15hrs

12.20
nil

18.40

12.10

nil

nil

18.05

nil

4.25

116.20

nil

20.35

202.35

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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First training flight was in an Avro Anson (serial 11291) on the 21st of September 1943, as a Bomb Aimer

On the night of the 20th/21st of February 1945, during a raid on Dortmund with 405 Sqn RCAF, Ron's Lancaster PB530 (LQ-W) was shot down by an aircraft with an upward firing weapon. At the time and for many years the crew assumed they'd been hit by flack, but in the 1990's Ron was speaking at a Probus meeting in Te Awamutu and a member of the audience came forward to state that he'd witnessed the loss of Ron's aircraft, as he'd been in a nearby bomber, and had seen the Luftwaffe Ju.88 with upward firing gun hit LQ-W that night.

The crew on that night were Squadron Leader Howie F.Marcou DFC, AFC (RCAF, Flight Commander); Flight Sergenat George E.Bolland DFM (who was killed on the ground by locals after he'd landed safely). Flying Officer T.W.Downey; Flying Officer Ron Noice RNZAF, Flying Officer Bill G."Smokey" Smoker; Flying Officer J.A.Lewis; Flying Officer J.T.Ross (RCAF) T/S J.W.Verner (USAAF).

He was captured and made a Prisoner of War. He was safe in the UK by the 15th of May 1945 .

I have interviewed Ron about his war service and more details are planned for this page in the future

 

 

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