Daniel Kerr MATTHEWS

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MATTHEWS, Daniel Kerr

Service Numbers:	PA1566, 407004
Enlisted:	16 October 1939, Port Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Squadron Leader
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Hemingford, Canada, 12 March 1918
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Accidental, Meribombene, New South Wales, Australia, Merricumbene, Eurobodalla, New South Wales, Australia, 16 September 1943, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Woden (Canberra) Public Cemetery, ACT R.S.L. Plot. Row D. Grave 14, Woden Cemetery, Woden, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Moruya "In Honour of Our Fallen" Memorial

World War 2 Service

16 Oct 1939:	Involvement PA1566
16 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Seaman, PA1566
16 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Port Adelaide, SA
28 Apr 1940:	Discharged
29 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide
29 Apr 1940:	Involvement Squadron Leader, 407004
29 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 407004
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of the Reverend John Kerr Matthews and Daisy Elizabeth Matthews of Payneham, SA

RAAF Wirraway aircraft A20-100 from the School of Army Co-operation was on a photographic sortie off the coast near Batemans Bay when it crashed at Merricumbene, west of Moruya, NSW killing Squadron Leader Daniel Kerr Matthews 407004 & Flying Officer William Harold Sebastian 1247

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