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GORRIE, Peter Creighton
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 407168 |
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Enlisted: | 20 July 1940 |
Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
Last Unit: | No. 2 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Peterborough, South Australia , 6 June 1918 |
Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
Schooling: | Scotch College, Adelaide |
Occupation: | Accountant |
Died: | Killed in Action, Netherlands East Indies, 12 January 1942, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the Ambon Memorial, Ambon Memorial, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia. Column 8. |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Ambon Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, No 2 Squadron RAAF Roll of Honour, Renmark District Roll of Honour WW2, Torrens Park Scotch College WW2 Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by Steve Larkins
Peter Gorrie's brother Robert was later to be killed in action with the 2nd/14th Field Regiment in New Britain.
Their father, working as a ship's surgeon on a British Merchant ship, was buried at sea following a Japanese air attack off Singapore in February 1942