Donald Bruce GILES

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GILES, Donald Bruce

Service Number:	407498
Enlisted:	12 October 1940, Adelaide
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer
Last Unit:	No. 454 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Minlaton, South Australia, Australia, 6 January 1917
Home Town:	Kapunda, Light, South Australia
Schooling:	Kapunda Technical School, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Occupation:	Stock Clerk
Died:	Flying Battle, Crete, Greece, 23 July 1943, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Suda Bay War Cemetery (Souda Bay) Greece 5. D. 18.
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kapunda District Honour Board, Kapunda Dutton Park Saving Airman Giles Memorial, Kapunda and District Fallen Soldiers Monument

World War 2 Service

12 Oct 1940:	Involvement Warrant Officer, 407498
12 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide
12 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 407498, No. 454 Squadron (RAAF)
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Giles, of Kapunda, South Australia.

DUTY NOBLY DONE

Mr. and Mrs. C.R. Giles, of Kapunda have been advised that their second son Flight-Sgt. Donald Bruce (Bill) Giles, has been reported missing on air operations in the Middle East on July 23. Flight-Sgt. Giles went abroad in June, 1941. as a wireless air-guner. Before enlisting he was employed by Edler, Smith and Ltd., at Jamestown, Kapunda, Bordertown and Narracourte.

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