Arthur Frank (Fred) WALKER

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WALKER, Arthur Frank

Service Number:	428126
Enlisted:	29 December 1942
Last Rank:	Flight Lieutenant
Last Unit:	No. 463 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Willaura, Victoria, Australia, 12 March 1917
Home Town:	Burnie, Burnie, Tasmania
Schooling:	Willaura State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Grocery and Hardware Salesman (Don Trading Coy)
Died:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 14 April 1994, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania The Launceston Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:	Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance

World War 2 Service

29 Dec 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 428126
9 Dec 1943:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, Appointed to Commission
29 Jan 1944:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 428126, embarked Melbourne for England
4 Nov 1945:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 428126, No. 463 Squadron (RAAF), embarked England for Sydney
3 Jan 1946:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 428126

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Eldest of three brothers who served in the RAAF in WWII, Flight Lieutenant Arthur Frank Walker (Service No:428126) enlisted in the RAAF on 29 December 1942 at No 6 Recruiting Centre Hobart as an Aircraftman II - mustered as Air Crew. On 9 December 1943 he was Appointed to Commission as Pilot Officer (and flew aircraft including CAC Wackett-DH84, Anson, Wellington, Stirling and Lancaster). Flying Officer Walker served in Egland (attached to the RAF - including RAF Station Hereford, 27 OTU Lichfield, 75 Base, 5 Lancaster Finishing School (LFS) Syerston and RAF Manston) from 29 January 1944 to 4 November 1945. Flight Lieutenant (described by his Commanding Officer (NAA)1945) as 'an excellent type of junior officer with good trade qualifications') was attached to 463 Squadron at Discharge on 3 January 1946.

Fred was born in Willaura, Victoria in 1917, third of five children (and eldest son) of William John Walker (b1881 in Willaura, Victoria) and Sarah Withers (b1883 at Long Gully, Victoria). William and Sarah married in 1913 in Willaura, where they settled and raised their family and William was a Farmer.

Fred worked as a Grocer in Willaura, where he met his wife Susie (Peg) Beris Brumby (b1904 in Launceston, Tasmania) - Peg worked as a Saleswoman in Devonport, Tasmania and was a Saleswoman in Bendigo in 1936. Fred and Peg moved to Tasmania, where they married in Devonport in 1940, and settled in Burnie, where Fred was a Grocery and Hardware Salesman with Don Trading Coy when he enlisted in the RAAF in 1942. Following his Discharge, Fred and Peg lived in Circular Head and Braddon, where Fred was a Sales Manager and Store Manager, before settling in Launceston, where Peg died in 1989 and Fred in 1994.

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