Athol Martin ANDREWS

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ANDREWS, Athol Martin

Service Number:	412351
Enlisted:	19 July 1941
Last Rank:	Flight Lieutenant
Last Unit:	No. 24 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, 29 July 1913
Home Town:	Balgowlah, Manly Vale, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Machine Compositor employed by Lake and Ashes Pty Ltd
Died:	Flying Battle, Borneo, 2 July 1945, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	Labuan War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot 18. Row D. Grave 1. Personal Inscription: - "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

19 Jul 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 412351, No. 2 Initial Training School Bradfield Park, Sydney, New South Wales
19 Jul 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 412351
27 Jul 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 412351, No. 73 Squadron (RAAF), Australia's Northern Periphery
7 Aug 1944:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 412351, No. 67 Squadron, Australia's Northern Periphery
14 Dec 1944:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 412351, No. 24 Squadron (RAAF), Australia's Northern Periphery

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Biography

7 Operational Training Unit

Rank - Flight Lt.

Plane was Liberator A72-64

Son of William Henry and Eva Andrews; husband of Eva Johns Andrews, of Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia.

Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Final Mission: - On 2nd July 1945, Liberator A72-64 was detailed to carry out a bombing support operation against front line Japanese positions. The aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed behind enemy lines in the Balikpapan area at 1245 hours. No parachutes were seen from the aircraft and all were posted missing, believed killed. Several land parties failed to locate the crash site until an Auster Air Observation Post aircraft flew over the site. On the 1st August a reconnaissance party from the 33rd Battalion AIF recovered the bodies of the crew.

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