Dudley Vincent COX

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COX, Dudley Vincent

Service Number:	416935
Enlisted:	25 July 1940, Prospect, SA
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 18 February 1920
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Glen Huntly State School, Glen Huntly, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk - Storeman
Died:	Flying Battle, Germany, 22 September 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Sage War Cemetery, Sage, Oldenburg, Germany Coll Grave Plot 14. Row A. Grave 10-12.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

World War 2 Service

25 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Prospect, SA
8 Nov 1941:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 416935
8 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide
8 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 416935
Date unknown:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 416935, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Frederick Thomas Cox and Clara Millicent May Cox, of Bentleigh, Victoria, Australia.

HIS DUTY FEARLESSLY AND NOBLY DONE. EVER REMEMBERED

Roll of Honour - Moorabin Victoria.

Mr and Mrs F. T. Cox, of Mitchell st, Bentleigh, have been informed that their younger son, Flt-Sgt Dudley Vincent Cox, who was reported missing after operations over Hanover on September 22, is now presumed dead. He was a member of a Lancaster crew. Aged 23, Flt-Sgt Cox was educated at Glenhuntly SS, where he was dux in 1933. Before enlisting he was on the Adelaide staff of B. J. Ball Pty. Ltd.

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