Roy McDowall BEATTIE DFM

BEATTIE, Roy McDowall

    Service Number: 404228
    Enlisted: 19 July 1940
    Last Rank: Flight Lieutenant
    Last Unit: No. 24 Squadron (RAAF)
    Born: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 20 August 1920
    Home Town: Lagoon Pocket, Gympie Regional Council, Queensland
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Railway clerk
    Died: Flying Battle, Borneo, 2 July 1945, aged 24 years
    Cemetery: Labuan War Cemetery
    Coll. grave 18. D. 6-15.
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gympie WW2, Imbil War Memorial, Kandanga Cemetery Memorial, Lagoon Pocket Roll of Honour
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    World War 2 Service

    19 Jul 1940: Enlisted 404228, Brisbane, Queensland
    19 Jul 1940: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 404228
    20 Jul 1940: Involvement Flying Officer, 404228, No. 142 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
    8 Apr 1941: Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 404228, Departed Sydney for UK via Canada. Disembarked in UK 1st August 1941.
    10 Sep 1941: Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant
    14 Oct 1941: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 404228, No. 458 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45, Joined 458 Squadron RAAF as it assembled in the UK, flying Wellington Mk. IV based at RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor.
    28 Jul 1942: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 404228, No. 37 Squadron (RAF), Middle East / Mediterranean Theatre, Transferred from 458 Sqn RAAF to 37 Sqn RAF. Bombing operations in Wellingtons in support of the Middle East campaign
    7 Dec 1942: Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, No. 37 Squadron (RAF)
    25 May 1943: Honoured Distinguished Flying Medal, Middle East / Mediterranean Theatre
    7 Jun 1943: Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer
    7 Dec 1944: Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, Operational Training Units (RAAF), Promotion conferred during conversion training to fly B-24 Liberator at H.B.R.T.U. Nadzab
    14 Dec 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 404228, No. 24 Squadron (RAAF), Air War SW Pacific 1941-45, Posted to 24 Sqn to fly bombing and anti-shipping strikes against Japanese forces in the Netherlands East Indies from airfields in the Northern Territory
    2 Jul 1945: Involvement Flight Lieutenant, 404228, No. 24 Squadron (RAAF), Borneo - Operation Oboe July - August 1945

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    "404228 Flying Officer (later Flight Lieutenant) Roy McDowall Beattie RAAF, 142 Squadron, RAF, of Gympie Qld, ...Distinguished Flying Medal. Flt Lt Beattie was lost on operations over Borneo on July 2, 1945, while flying with 24 Squadron, RAAF. He is buried in the Labuan War Cemetery in Malaysia." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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