Eric Alfred BIRRELL

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Service Number:	416923
Enlisted:	8 November 1941
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Mount Gambier, South Australia, 6 March 1923
Home Town:	Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia
Schooling:	Mt Gambier High School, South Australia
Occupation:	Butcher
Died:	Flying Battle, Germany, 15 March 1944, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Mount Gambier Ancient Order of Foresters WW2 Roll of Honour, Mount Gambier High School Old Scholars WW2 Honour Roll, Mount Gambier War Memorial

8 Nov 1941:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 416923
8 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide
8 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 416923
17 Oct 1942:	Embarked Royal Air Force , Flight Sergeant, 416923, Embarked Melbourne for service in the Royal Air Force as an Air Gunner
15 May 1944:	Wounded Royal Air Force , Flight Sergeant, 416923, Flt. Sgt. Eric Birrell was killed in action on 15 March 1944, aged 21, serving with No. 9 RAF Squadron (Lancasters) on a bombing mission targeting Stuttgart, during which 863 Allied bombers dropped a total of 3,000 tons of bombs.
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Eric Alfred BIRRELL was the son of James BIRRELL and Emilie Minner MULLER, born on the 6th March 1923 in Mount Gambier.

James and Emilie were married in November 1912. Eric was the sixth of 9 children born to the couple.

Two of Eric's brothers also enlisted and thankfully returned home.

Edwin James 1914 SX37397

Ray Muller 1925 S114917