WIGHTMAN, Kevin Frederick
| Service Number: | 417610 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 June 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Berri, SA, 26 December 1923 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Berri HPS |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Accidental, England, England, United Kingdom, 16 December 1943, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cambridge City Cemetery, United Kingdom 14713A, Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 9 Jun 1942: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 417610 | |
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| 9 Jun 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide | |
| 9 Jun 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 417610 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Wightman, of the Grove, Woodville have been notified that their youngest son, Sgt. Air Gunner Kevin Frederick Wightman, lost his life as the result of an air craft accident in England on the night of December 16. Sgt. Wightman, who spent his boyhood at Berri, where he attended the Higher Primary School, enlisted in December 1941, when he was 18, and sailed for England in June last. He was one of a crew of a Halifax bomber which crashed in Lincolnshire The Wightman family left the River to make their home at Woodville in 1938. Mrs. D. O. Flint, of Renmark, is a sister of the late airman.
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