WESTON, Ian Duncan
| Service Number: | 284999 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
| Last Unit: | No. 6 Service Flying Training School Mallala |
| Born: | Rose Park, South Australia, 16 May 1916 |
| Home Town: | Karoonda, Karoonda East Murray, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bank Officer - Union Bank |
| Died: | Flying Accident, Tarlee, South Australia, Tarlee, South Australia, Australia, 23 September 1943, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mallala (Feltwell) War Cemetery, S.A. Plot B. Row D. Grave 1. |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Jamestown Methodist Church WW2 Roll of Honour, Jamestown and District WW2 Honour Roll, Melbourne Union Bank of Australia Limited 'In Memoriam' WW2 Honour Roll, Naracoorte War Memorial, Tarlee Avro Anson W2095 Air Crash Site, Yorketown Kadina Union Bank WW2 Roll of Honor |
World War 2 Service
| 30 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 284999, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 30 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 284999 | |
| 31 Mar 1942: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, 284999, No. 6 Service Flying Training School Mallala | |
| 23 Sep 1943: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 284999, No. 6 Service Flying Training School Mallala, Empire Air Training Scheme |
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"Private Casualty Advices
Mrs. Ian Weston, of Karoonda, has been notified that her husband. F.O. Ian Duncan Weston, 27, navigational instructor, RAAF. lost his life as the result of an aircraft accident on the night of September 23. PO Western was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Weston, of Bairnsdale, Vic. and he leaves a widow and a baby son. Before enlistment he was on the staff of the Union Bank at Naracoorte and Jamestown, and at Bairnsdale, Victoria. He was a Scoutmaster at Naracoorte." - from the Adelaide Advertiser 29 Sep 1943 (nla.gov.au)
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John and Ellen Mary Weston; husband of Ruth Lilian Weston, of Karoonda.
Ian enjoyed tennis, cricket, golf, football, swimming, badmington and tabel tennis.
KILLED IN AIR
ACCIDENT
FLYING OFFICER IAN DUNCAN
WESTON
Mr. and Mrs. J. Weston, post office, Bairnsdale, received the sad news on Friday, of the death of their only child, Flying Officer Ian Duncan Weston, 27 years, who was killed in a flying accident at an Australian training school in which he was an instructor.
Flying Officer Weston, who was a native of Adelaide, joined the Union Bank in 1934, at Narracoorte, and three years later was transferred to Jamestown, from where he enlisted in the R.A.A.F. in 1940.
The sympathy of the community will be extended to Mr. and Mrs. Weston in their great sorrow.
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