Robert Trevor VINCENT

VINCENT, Robert Trevor

Service Numbers: Not yet discovered
Enlisted: 16 October 1939
Last Rank: Pilot Officer
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Binnum, South Australia, 17 September 1898
Home Town: Broadford, Mitchell, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Aircraft accident, Point Cook, Victoria, Australia, 29 November 1939, aged 41 years
Cemetery: Barrabool Hills Cemetery, Victoria
C. of E. Plot New Section 43-47 Family Grave (GRM/3)
Memorials: Broadford War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Pilot Officer
16 Oct 1939: Involvement Pilot Officer
16 Oct 1939: Enlisted
16 Oct 1939: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of Robert and Leslie Vincent

Husband of Ella Mary Vincent of South Yarra, Victoria

 

Robert Vincent enlisted for WW1 Service in August 1918 - Serial Number 79375

 

RAAF Gypsy Moth aircraft A7-62 of Number 1 Flying Training School crashed after a wing collapsed 3 miles west of Point Cook, Victoria - killed were Pilot Officer Robert Trevor Vincent (Pilot) & Pilot Officer James Richard Whitford (neither officer had a Service Number allocated)