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GAZE, Frederick Anthony Owen
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 60096 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Flight Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Prahran, Victoria, Australia, 3 February 1920 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 29 July 2013, aged 93 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Service History
World War 2 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Flight Lieutenant, 60096 |
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Squadron Leader Frederick Anthony Owen Gaze D.F.C. Born February 3 1920, Melbourne, Australia. Died July 29 2013. Gaze shot down at least 12.5 enemy aircraft; and was three times awarded the DFC – one of only 47 men in the Second World War to be so honoured. He also became, in the latter days of the war, the first Australian to shoot down a German jet before becoming the first Australian to fly the RAF’s first jet fighter, the Meteor, in combat.
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