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 (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.

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