Richard Gilbert SYMONDS

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SYMONDS, Richard Gilbert

Service Number:	437322
Enlisted:	2 January 1943
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Port Pirie West, South Australia, 27 August 1923
Home Town:	Port Pirie, Port Pirie City and Dists, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Flying Battle, Pfahlbronn, Germany, North West Europe, 12 September 1944, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany Collective grave 11. B. 9-10, Durnbach War Cemetery, Bavaria, Germany
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Port Pirie WW2 Memorial Gates, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

World War 2 Service

2 Jan 1943:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 437322
2 Jan 1943:	Enlisted Adelaide
2 Jan 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 437322
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Lancaster LL789 of Number 467 Squadron crashed at Pfahlbronn in Germany (target Stuttgart) killing RAAF crewmen Flight Sergeant Peter Callow 423445 / Flight Sergeant Gilbert Thomas Kirby 434682 / Flight Sergeant Richard Gilbert Symonds 437322

Two other RAAF crewmen survived and became Prisoners of War - Flight Lieutenant Victor Colin Manchester 437530 and Flying Officer Arthur Lang Bright 420856

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