Dudley Howard DOWNS

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DOWNS, Dudley Howard

Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Not yet discovered
Last Unit:	No. 23 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 19 January 1917
Home Town:	Prospect (SA), Prospect, South Australia
Schooling:	Nailsworth School and Adelaide Technical High School, Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation:	Electrical Fitter
Died:	Flying Accident, Off Queensland Coast, Australia, 12 August 1940, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Sydney Memorial, Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials:	Adelaide Technical High School Old Scholars WW2 Honour Roll, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Nailsworth Primary School WW2 Roll of Honour, Sydney Memorial (Sydney War Cemetery) Rookwood

World War 2 Service

12 Aug 1940:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, No. 23 Squadron (RAAF)
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

RAAF Lockheed Hudson aircraft A16-27 of Number 23 Squadron was lost in Moreton Bay, Queensland at a location known as Jumpin Pin between North & South Stradbroke Island

The aircraft took off from Archerfield airfield in Brisbane for a navigational exercise at sea but failed to return. Its wireless faded out 20 minutes after take-off, and nothing more was heard. Two Hudson aircraft took off at 0700 hours the next morning to carry out a search but no wreckage was found - lost at 27.27 Latitude and 153.47 Longitude

The crew are commemorated on the Sydney Memorial to the missing in the NSW Garden of Remembrance adjacent to the Sydney War Cemetery within the Rookwood Necropolis

Sergeant Hamilton James O'Gorman 2545 - Panel 6

Flying Officer Mervyn Stephen Matthews 382 (pilot) - Panel 6

Pilot Officer Walter Keith Beeston 24180 (2nd pilot) - Panel 5

Sergeant Dudley Howard Downs 2464 - Panel 5

AC Francis John Starr 5085 - Panel 7

LAC George Leslie Savage 3746 - Panel 7

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