Hilary Eldred BIRK

Service Number:	402634
Enlisted:	18 September 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 159 Squadron (RAF)
Born:	Windsor, New South Wales, Australia, 31 January 1922
Home Town:	Burwood, Burwood, New South Wales
Schooling:	Trinity Grammar School, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Flying Battle, Middle East, 15 July 1942, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Benghazi War Cemetery, Libya Plot 6, Row E, Grave 20
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

18 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 402634, Sydney, New South Wales
18 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 402634
15 Jul 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 402634, No. 159 Squadron (RAF), Libya/North Africa

Trove Article

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Saturday 12 June 1943, page 11
SYDNEY AIRMAN DEAD

The Rev. G. P. Birk, rector of St. Peter's Church, Burwood, has been in-formed by the Department of Air that his son. Sergeant-Pilot Hilary E. Birk, R.A.A.F., was shot down by anti-air-craft fire over Benghazi in July of last year, and that his body was re-covered later from the sea, and buried in the Christian cemetery at Gluliana, Benghazi.

This information come from Rome ; through the International Red Cross.

Sergeant-Pilot Birk, who was- 20 years of age, was educated at Trinity I Grammar School, Sydney, and was employed by the Colonial Sugar Refin-ing Company v/hen he enlisted soon after the outbreak of war. He was trained in Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme._

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