Coming Soon.
GODFREY, Dennis Frederick John
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 422853 |
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Enlisted: | 26 May 1942 |
Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
Last Unit: | No. 186 Squadron (RAF) |
Born: | Tooting, England, 29 March 1924 |
Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Randwick High School, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Airline Pilot |
Died: | Sutherland Shire, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 6 September 2019, aged 95 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales Presbyterian Monumental Section B, Grave 040 (Ashes) |
Memorials: |
Biography contributed by Paul Godfrey
Dennis self-taught as a bricklayer, concreter, carpenter, landscaper, boat-builder, and administrator. While his 3 sons were sailing his hand-built dinghies, Dennis was progressing through command and management positions with TAA including three years in New Guinea in the mid-1960s. He was Senior Regional Captain, Sydney in the 1970s retiring as a Boeing 727 Captain in 1981 aged 57, having flown 33 years and 20,000 hours for TAA.
Dennis loved flying