John Norman George DUNN

DUNN, John Norman George

Service Number: 28046
Enlisted: 20 May 1940
Last Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit: 5 Communication Unit RAAF (Garbutt)
Born: Port Pirie, South Australia, 31 October 1907
Home Town: Port Pirie, Port Pirie City and Dists, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Aircraft accident), At sea, Torres Strait, Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia, 22 August 1944, aged 36 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Sydney Memorial, Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Port Pirie WW2 Memorial Gates, Sydney Memorial, Wandearah East Broughton Plains Region War Memorial, Wandearah Roll of Honour WW2, Wandearah West Memorial and Flagpole
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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Norseman aircraft A71-1 from 5 Communication Unit based at Garbutt crashed into the sea near Boigu Island in the Torres Strait

Flight Sergeant Frank Henry Rossiter 432268 / LAC Clifford David Searle 76295 / LAC John Norman George Dunn 28046 were killed - their bodies were not recovered and they are commemorated on the Sydney Memorial

Corporal Victor Clifford Robinson 33134 / LAC Leslie James Hart 63374 / LAC David Roy Tomasetti 41715 all survived