Douglas Walter BATTEN

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BATTEN, Douglas Walter

Service Number:	30053
Enlisted:	18 March 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 9 May 1915
Home Town:	Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Launceston Church of England, Grammar School, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Flying Battle, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, 22 January 1944, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated: - Panel 259, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 30053
18 Mar 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 30053

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - Walter James Batten and Ada Ethel Cross married 29th March 1912 in Cressy, Tasmania, Australia.

Flight Sergeant Douglas Walter Batten's Squadron 640 was operating from Lissett when his aircraft was lost, he was posted missing on 22nd January 1944. Halifax LW459 is believed to have crashed into the North Sea off Flamborough Head. He was twenty eight years old.

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