Doric Phillip BIRK

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Service Number:	14228
Enlisted:	26 March 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Windsor, New South Wales, 5 April 1920
Home Town:	Burwood, Burwood, New South Wales
Schooling:	Trinity Grammar School
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Flying Battle, Belgium, 15 June 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Heverlee War Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium Plot 4, Row E, Grave 1 , Heverlee War Cemetery, Heverlee, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 14228
26 Mar 1940:	Enlisted
26 Mar 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 14228

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Plane was Lancaster LM 324 of 460 Squadron

Rank - Flight Sergeant

Son of the Revd. George Phillip Birk and Elvy Grace Birk, of Croydon, New South Wales, Australia.