Jack Shaw ALEXANDER

ALEXANDER, Jack Shaw

Service Numbers: 410935, V56521
Enlisted: 23 August 1940
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, 25 June 1920
Home Town: Bairnsdale, East Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Flying Accident), West Sale, Victoria, Australia, West Sale, Sale, Victoria, Australia, 17 November 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Sale War Cemetery, Victoria
Plot B, Row B, Grave 7
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bairnsdale Royal Australian Air Force Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Flight Sergeant, 410935
23 Aug 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V56521
24 Apr 1942: Enlisted Flight Sergeant, 410935, Enlisted in Melbourne
24 Apr 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 410935

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Flight Sergeant Jack Shaw Alexander 410935 (Pilot) was killed when Fairey Battle L2263 from Number 3 Bombing & Gunnery School based at West Sale crashed near Sale, Victoria

LAC John Robert Henry Stapleton 21552 and LAC Keith Carmichael Toose 15826 survived with minor injuries

Biography

Plane was Fairey Battle L 2263

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William and Eileen Olive Alexander, of East Bairnsdale.