GOOD, Christopher Marshall
Service Number: | 417476 |
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Enlisted: | 23 May 1942 |
Last Rank: | Warrant Officer |
Last Unit: | RAAF Telecommunications and Communications Units |
Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 1 April 1924 |
Home Town: | Brighton, Holdfast Bay, South Australia |
Schooling: | St Peter's College, Adelaide, South Australia |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Flying Accident, Taclobar, Leyte, Philippines, 13 November 1945, aged 21 years |
Cemetery: |
Sai Wan War Cemetery, Hong Kong |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brighton St Judes Anglican Church WW2 Roll of Honour, Hackney St Peter's College WW2 Honour Roll, Maryborough No. 3 Wireless Air Gunners' School Memorial Wall |
World War 2 Service
23 May 1942: | Involvement Aircraftman, 417476 | |
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23 May 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide, South Australia | |
23 May 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 417476 | |
11 Sep 1944: | Involvement Warrant Officer, 417476, RAAF Telecommunications and Communications Units |
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"S.A. Airman Killed In Philippines Crash
BRISBANE, Nov. 19. Advice has been received that 15 service personnel, including three Australians, were killed when an Australian National Airways Douglas plane crashed in the sea near Tacloban airstrip, Leyte, in the Philippines last Tuesday. The sole survivor was an American Lieutenant. The Australians killed were Captain H. Rawson, ANA Pilot, of Brisbane; Warrant Officer Christopher Marshall Good, RAAF, of Brighton, SA, co-pilot; and Warrant Officer Lloyd George Jones, RAAF, of Tully, Queensland, wireless operator. The other victims are believed to have been Americans.
WO Good is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Good, of Dunrobin road Brighton. They have been advised that WO Good was engaged in tbe transport of prisoners of war from the Philippines and Japan." - from the Adelaide Advertiser 20 Nov 1945 (nla.gov.au)