Frederick Thomas FROMM

FROMM, Frederick Thomas

Service Number: 296689
Enlisted: 15 April 1940
Last Rank: Flying Officer
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Adelaide, SA, 26 January 1913
Home Town: West Croydon, Charles Sturt, South Australia
Schooling: Adelaide High School
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Flying Battle, New Guinea, 25 February 1943, aged 30 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Port Moresby Memorial, Port Moresby, Papua, Papua New Guinea
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Moresby (Bomana) Memorial
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World War 2 Service

15 Apr 1940: Involvement Flying Officer, 296689
15 Apr 1940: Enlisted Perth, WA
15 Apr 1940: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 296689
Date unknown: Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Frederick Archibald and Jessie May Fromm, of West Croydon, South Australia.

S.A. Airman Missing Pilot - Officer
Fred Fromm, of Percy terrace, West Croydon is missing as a result of air operations in New Guinea. This advice has been received by his father. Mr. F. A. Fromm. He joined the R.A.A.F. in Perth and trained as a wireless air gunner at Cunderdin, Ballarat, and Sale. He was an old scholar of Adelaide High School.

His brother, Charles, is a lieutenant in the A.I.F.

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