Robert Edward Herbert HOPE

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HOPE, Robert Edward Herbert

Service Number:	407363
Enlisted:	14 September 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Clare, South Australia, 26 October 1909
Home Town:	Clare, Clare and Gilbert Valleys, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Flying Battle, Aegean Sea, Middle East, 15 February 1943, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Alamein Memorial, El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Marsa Matruh, Egypt
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Clare Memorial Row of Trees, Clare WW2 Memorial Gates, Clare and District WW2 Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

14 Sep 1940:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 407363
14 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide
14 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 407363
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Marauder FK150 of 14 Squadron RAF crashed into the Aegean Sea with all crew killed:

Hope, Robert Edward Herbert (Flight Sergeant) 407363 RAAF

Thompson, Jack Irvine (Flight Sergeant) 403437 RAAF

Truman, Colin Carl (Pilot Officer) 402766 RAAF

Connell, Bernard Thomas (Flying Officer) 402853 RNZAF

Firth, Kenneth (Sergeant) RAF 1068543

Semple, William James (Sergeant) RAF 542705

Their bodies were not recovered and they are commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt

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