SCHERGER, Frederick Rudolph William
| Service Number: | O38 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 January 1925, Point Cook, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Air Chief Marshal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Cathcart, near Ararat, VIC, 18 May 1904 |
| Home Town: | Ararat, Ararat, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Norval State School, Ararat High School, Royal Military College Duntroon. |
| Occupation: | Air Force Officer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Vic., 16 January 1984, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Garden of No Distant Place, May, Date 18 |
| Memorials: | Ararat Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Scherger Memorial Plaque |
World War 2 Service
| 21 Jan 1925: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal, O38, Point Cook, Vic. | |
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| 18 May 1966: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal, O38 |
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Rudolph William Scherger, KBE, CB, DSO, AFC (1904 – 1984) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He served as Chief of the Air Staff, the RAAF's highest-ranking position, from 1957 until 1961, and as Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, forerunner of the role of Australia's Chief of the Defence Force, from 1961 until 1966. He was the first RAAF officer to hold the rank of air chief marshal.
Scherger was born on 18 May 1904 at Cathcart, near Ararat, Victoria.
Sir Frederick Rudolph William Scherger (1904-1984), air force officer, airline commissioner and company chairman, was born on 18 May 1904 at Cathcart, near Ararat, Victoria, youngest of three children of Victorian-born parents Frederick Scherger, farmer, and his wife Sarah Jane, née Chamberlain. His paternal grandparents had migrated to Australia from Germany about 1850.
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