Robin Ordell

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Robin "Pop" Ordell (16 June 1920 – 3 February 1945) was an Australian actor and radio announcer who became a bomber pilot in World War II. He was born in Sydney to nurse Ethel Phillips and actor Tal Ordell. As a child, he starred in his father’s film The Kid Stakes (1927) as Fatty Finn.

In the 1930s he acted in radio plays for 2GB and later became the youngest radio announcer in Australia when he took over a morning slot in 1939. In 1940 he launched The Youth Show on 2GB, a program about young radio stars.

In 1941 Ordell joined the Royal Australian Air Force. He trained as a pilot in Canada and served with No. 100 Squadron RAF as an Avro Lancaster bomber pilot. On 3 February 1945, during a raid on the Ruhr in Germany, his plane was shot down and he was killed. His body was recovered and buried, and he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in April 1946 for his bravery and devotion to duty.