Peter Morphett PIGGOTT

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PIGGOTT, Peter Morphett

Service Number:	407454
Enlisted:	12 October 1940
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Operational Training Units (RAF)
Born:	Clarendon, South Australia, 12 November 1920
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Vineyard worker
Died:	Accidental (Flying Accident), Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, 30 December 1941, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Hylton (Castletown) Cemetery Hylton (Castletown) Cemetery, Hylton, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Clarendon Methodist Church and Sunday School Honour Board, Clarendon WW2 Memorial, Clarendon War Memorial

World War 2 Service

12 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, South Australia
12 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 407454
30 Dec 1941:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 407454, Operational Training Units (RAF), Empire Air Training Scheme, 55 Operational Training Unit
Date unknown:	Involvement

Marriage

Peter married Vera Doreen SOUTHWELL (1922 - 2009) in September 1941 in Rhodesia, South Africa

Submitted 18 September 2015 by Leonard Binks

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Miles Master training aircraft N8076 and T8567 from Number 55 Operational Training Unit RAF crashed in Sunderland, England after colliding in mid-air with all four airmen killed:

Miles Master N8076 - Sergeant Peter Morphett Piggott 407454 RAAF and Sergeant William Gilbert Bothe 14227 RAAF

Miles Master T8567 - Sergeant Leonard Douglas Wright 407758 RAAF and Pilot Officer Arthur Raymond Kirby J/8814 (R/69660) RCAF

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