BARTLETT, Gordon Kenneth
| Service Number: | 407190 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 226 Squadron (RAF) |
| Born: | Sydney, NSW, 8 July 1920 |
| Home Town: | Kings Park, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Naremburn Primary School, North Sydney Boys High School, Unley High School |
| Occupation: | Junior Draftsman |
| Died: | Flying Battle, Netherlands, 20 September 1941, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery Plot 85. Row D. Grave 6. |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 407190, No. 226 Squadron (RAF), Adelaide, SA | |
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| 20 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 407190 | |
| 20 Sep 1941: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 407190, No. 226 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John Royston Bartlett and Florence Maud Bartlett, of Hawthorn, South Australia.
HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THE COUNTRY HE LOVED - AUSTRALIA
Sergeant-Observer Gordon K. Bartlett, RAAF, has been reported missing from air operations on September 20. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bartlett, of 35 Ningana Avenue, King's Park, and is 21 years of age. He was formerly on the survey staff of the Lands Department and left for overseas in October, 1940. He had his later training in Canada.
Sergeant Gordon K. Bartlett, of the RAAF, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Bartlett, of Ningana avenue, King's Park, who was reported missing in September, is now believed to have been killed. Sergent Bartlett was a member of the crew of a Blenheim aircraft which failed to return from an operational flight on September 20. Private John L. Dodd, 23, of Mount Hope who died of illness in Palestine on November 16, enlisted in July, 1940. He served in Tob-ruk for seven months.