Keith (Kenneth) Robert WILES

WILES, Keith (Kenneth) Robert

Service Number: 27141
Enlisted: 23 July 1940
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Black Forest, South Australia, 18 December 1921
Home Town: Glandore, Marion, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Aircraft accident, Dutch New Guinea, 18 September 1945, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
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Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Dakota Transport A65-61
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World War 2 Service

23 Jul 1940: Involvement Flight Sergeant, 27141
23 Jul 1940: Enlisted Adelaide
23 Jul 1940: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 27141
Date unknown: Involvement

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of Leslie Horace and Florence Evelyn Wiles; husband of Margaret Wiles of North Footscray, Victoria.

38SQN RAAF Dakota A65-61 crashed near Merauke, Dutch NG while on a mission to return 18 former POWs to Australia  

All on board were killed in the crash: SAWREY, Allan George (Flight Sergeant) 6188 / WILES, Keith Robert (Flight Sergeant) 27141 / BLACKMORE, Francis Leonard Henry (Sergeant) 47042 / DUNDERDALE, William Royce (Leading Aircraftsman) 170241 / WILKINSON, Eric (Warrant Officer) 405949 / HUNTER, Arthur Jack (Warrant Officer) 411069 / CAMPBELL, Allan (Warrant Officer) 412376 / HUGHES, Albert Clifford (Warrant Officer) 414566 / STIBBARD, Noel Royce (Flying Officer) 421110 / Sister Marie Eileen Craig 501399 RAAF Nursing Service of Number 2 Medical Air Evacuation Unit

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