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CALDER, Peter John
Personal Details
Service Number: | 417799 |
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Enlisted: | 18 July 1942 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | Operational Training Units (RAF) |
Born: | Lower Mitcham, Adelaide South Australia , 25 May 1924 |
Home Town: | Unley Park, City of Unley, South Australia |
Schooling: | Pultney Grammar School- St. Peters College Hackney Adelaide South Australia |
Occupation: | Shipping Clerk |
Died: | Aircraft Accident , Brackley Airfield Winchester England, England, United Kingdom, 17 March 1944, aged 19 years |
Cemetery: |
Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Plot 1/2 Grave 179 |
Memorials: | Adelaide Pulteney Grammar School WW2 Honour Roll, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brackley (UK) Wellington Bomber Suite and Plaque, Hackney St Peter's College WW2 Honour Roll, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
18 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 417799, No. 4 Initial Training School Victor Harbor, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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18 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 417799 | |
25 May 1943: | Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 417799, Emb. Sydney for U.K. | |
8 Feb 1944: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 417799, Operational Training Units (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45, 17 OTU (RAF) |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graham Padget
Flight Sergeant 417799 Calder, RAAF, was the son of Major John Calder and Ruby Calder of Unley Park, South Australia.
He died on 17th March 1944, whilst on board Wellington Bomber BK 352 on a training flight which overshot the runway and crashed at Brackley Airfield, Winchester. Flt Sergeant Calder was 19.
(findagrave.com - Stephen Potts)