George Frederick QUINN

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QUINN, George Frederick

Service Number:	416999
Enlisted:	8 November 1941
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer
Last Unit:	Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 9 June 1921
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Christian Brothers College, Ovingham, Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation:	Saw Sharpener (Walter & Morris Ltd, Port Adelaide)
Died:	Accidental, Island Lagoon, South Australia, 27 May 1944, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Port Pirie General Cemetery, South Australia
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Island Lagoon Wirraway A20-634 Crash Site, Port Pirie RAAF Memorial and Flagpoles

World War 2 Service

8 Nov 1941:	Involvement Warrant Officer, 416999, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
8 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
8 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 416999
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Flight Sergeant John Joseph Hayes 409406 & Warrant Officer George Frederick Quinn 416999 of Number 1 Aircraft Depot Ferry Flight, Laverton, Victoria were killed in the loss of Wirraway aircraft A20-634 at Island Lagoon, 150 miles north-west of Port Augusta, SA

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Flight Sergeant George Frederick Quinn (Service No:416999) enlisted in the RAAF at No 5 Recruiting Centre Adelaide on 8 November 1941 as an Aircraftman I - mustered as Air Crew V and re mustered later as Airman Pilot. From 26 March 1943 to 11 February 1944, Flight Sergeant Quinn was attached to No 77 Squadron (New Guinea campaign - 5 strikes and attacks and 29 other ops). On 27 May 1944, Flight Sergeant Quinn was ferrying RAAF Wirraway A20 - 634 from No 1 Aircraft Depot (Laverton) to Northern Australia when he descended to avoid low cloud and crashed on the salt pan at Island Lagoon via Port Augusta. Flight Sergeant Quinn (Pilot) and crew member Flight Sergeant John Hayes (Navigator) were killed.

George was born Adelaide, South Australia in 1921, fourth of seven children of John Joseph Quinn (b1884 in Burra, South Australia) and Sarah May Newman (b1888 at Acacia Siding via Broken Hill, NSW). John and Sarah married in 1910 in Adelaide, where they settled and raised their family and John worked as a Labourer and Box Maker.

George started an apprenticeship as a Saw Sharpener with Walter & Morris Ltd Port Adelaide in 1936, and was working for the company in 1941 when he enlisted in the RAAF.

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