DOWNING, Darryl
| Service Number: | 407709 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 January 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 460 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Rose Park, South Australia, Australia, 2 March 1922 |
| Home Town: | Lameroo, Southern Mallee, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Lameroo Higher Primary, Prince Alfred College & Adelaide University, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Audit Clerk, Annells, Powell, Tilly & Wiltshire & Co. Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Died: | Flying Battle, North West Europe, 3 July 1942, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany Plot 15. Row B. Joint Grave 8-9. |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
Biography contributed by David Barlow
Wellington Z1381 of 460SQN was shot down 3 July 1942 at Kressendorf (Lingen), Germany with 3 crewmen killed - Sergeant Darryl Downing 407709 RAAF / Flight Sergeant Arthur Maxwell Johnston 404784 RAAF / Sergeant William James Taylor 407775 RAAF
Survivors were Sergeant David August Radke 405139 RAAF POW - discharged 1945 / Sergeant William Gerald Reed DCM 402479 RAAF POW - discharged 1946
Sergeant Maxwell Joseph Andrew Wyllie 405001 RAAF was killed in an escape attempt in April 1943
Biography contributed
Darryl DOWNING was born in Rose Park, South Australia on 2nd March, 1922
His parents were Reginald Wilbert Pearce DOWNING & Pamela TAMBLYN who married in Mount Pleasant, SA in January, 1920
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His father Reginald served during WW1 (SN 4519) and WW2 (SN S74393 - he was awarded the Military Medal
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