LETCHER, Robert John
| Service Number: | 416437 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 June 1941, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Semaphore, South Australia, Australia , 17 November 1918 |
| Home Town: | Millswood, City of Unley, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Vacuum Oil Company |
| Died: | Flying Battle, England, United Kingdom, 22 January 1944, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Bath (Haycombe) Cemetery Plot 39 Sec H Row C Grave 253 |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Nar Nar Goon Vacuum Oil Company Pty Ltd. Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 23 Jun 1941: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 416437 | |
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| 23 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 416437, Adelaide, SA | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Thorold Roy and Doris Phoebe Letcher, of Adelaide, South Australia
Mr. and Mrs. T.R. Letcher, of Irwin avenue, Millswood Estate, have been notified that their eldest son. F/Sgt. Robert Jonn Letcher, 25, lost his life on January 22 as the result of an aircraft accident. F/Sgt. Letcher was navigator of a Wellington which crashed
Over Somerset, England, while on a non-operational flight. He served eight months in England. Before enlistment he was employed in the Adelaide office of the Vacuum Oil Company. His youngest brother. Sgt. L. E. Letcher is also attached to the RAAF in England as a wireless-air gunner and his other brother, Gnr. D. R. Letcher, is serving with the AIF in New Guinea.
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