Neil Grosvenor EVAN

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EVAN, Neil Grosvenor

Service Number:	417064
Enlisted:	6 December 1941
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	RAAF Telecommunications and Communications Units
Born:	Kensington Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia, 4 October 1922
Home Town:	Rosslyn Park, Burnside, South Australia
Schooling:	Kings College, Kensington & Stotts Business College, South Australia
Occupation:	Junior Clerk
Died:	Flying Accident, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 26 November 1943, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea Plot B2, Row D, Grave 10
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

6 Dec 1941:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 417064
6 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide
6 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 417064
26 Nov 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 417064, RAAF Telecommunications and Communications Units, Air War SW Pacific 1941-45
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Lodestar aircraft VH-CAB operated by Qantas Empire Airways (QEA) for the Allied Directorate of Air Transport crashed shortly after take-off from Wards airstrip near Port Moresby, New Guinea with all on board killed. Australian service personnel buried at Bomana -

CAMPBELL, William Geoffrey (Squadron Leader) RAAF 261730 (Qantas Captain - Pilot)

HENDERSON, John Randolph Fleming (Pilot Officer) RAAF 410863 (Qantas First Officer)

LITTLE, Keith George (Flying Officer) RAAF 267726 (Qantas Engineer)

EVAN, Neil Grosvenor (Flight Sergeant) RAAF 417064 (Wireless Operator)

JENKE, Leslie Harold (Flight Sergeant) RAAF 8868 (Equipment Assistant)

McCARTHY, John Francis (Major) NX7195 (2nd Echelon Land HQ)

BOLGER, John Benedict (Lieutenant Colonel) NX462 (2/6th Field Regiment)

MARSTON, Edward John (Lieutenant Colonel) VX39064 (HQ 11 Australian Division)

Biography contributed

Neil Grosvenor EVAN was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 4th October, 1922

His parents were Burton Gwyn EVAN & Lois Audrey OLDING who married in the Methodist Church in Stirling East, Adelaide on 30th August, 1921

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