Francis Carstairs SANDERS

SANDERS, Francis Carstairs

Service Number: 416155
Enlisted: 31 March 1941, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank: Flying Officer
Last Unit: No. 3 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: North Adelaide, South Australia, 20 July 1920
Home Town: Jamestown, Northern Areas, South Australia
Schooling: Prince Alfred College, Adelaide
Occupation: Bank Teller
Died: Flying Battle, Italy, 26 September 1944, aged 24 years
Cemetery: Faenza Commonwealth War Cemetery, Italy
Grave 2 F8, Faenza War Cemetery, Italy
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Jamestown and District WW2 Honour Roll, Spalding & District War Memorial Gates, Washpool Memorial Gates
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World War 2 Service

31 Mar 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 416155, Adelaide, South Australia
31 Mar 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 416155
1 Jan 1943: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 416155, No. 3 Squadron (RAAF)
26 Sep 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 416155, No. 3 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

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Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

Saw conflict from 1939 to 1944. Body was exhumed from Castel Petro Cemetery and reinterred in Faenza War Cemetery near Bologna Italy, grave no 2F8.     

His father, Lieut. Francis Gordon Sanders (/explore/people/345748) served in the Boer War and WW1.

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