Peter Creighton GORRIE

GORRIE, Peter Creighton

Service Number: 407168
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
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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