MORPHETT, Philip Harold
| Service Number: | 407522 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 November 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Pilot Officer |
| Last Unit: | No. 11 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 3 July 1921 |
| Home Town: | Fullarton, Unley, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Adelaide Technical High School |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Accidental, India, 5 August 1943, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Ranchi War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. K. 4-7. |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Savings Bank of South Australia Honour Roll WW2, Adelaide Technical High School Old Scholars WW2 Honour Roll, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 9 Nov 1940: | Enlisted Adelaide | |
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| 9 Nov 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 407522 | |
| 5 Aug 1943: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 407522, No. 11 Squadron (RAAF) | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Son of Norman Harold and Anna Elizabeth May Morphett, of Fullarton, South Australia.
DEATH DOTH HIDE, BUT NOT DIVIDE. UNITED STILL ARE WE
Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Morphett, of Woodfield avenue, Fullarton, have been notified that their elder son, Flt-Sgt. Phillip H. Morphett, lost his life in air operations in India on August 5. Before the war he was in the Militia as a field engineer, and in October, 1939, was called up for service at Fort Largs with the Fortress Engineers. He trained with the RAAF and left for overseas in July, 1941. He served as a bomber pilot in Eng-land, the Western Desert, Ceylon, and India. He was formerly on the staff of the Savings Bank of SA. His brother is training in the RAAF.
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