Robert Alfred BLACKMAN

BLACKMAN, Robert Alfred

Service Number: 402844
Enlisted: 11 November 1940
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: No. 24 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Binnaway, New South Wales, Australia, 24 December 1921
Home Town: Burwood, Burwood, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Flying Battle, Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, 20 January 1942, aged 20 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea Panel 36
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Municipality of Strathfield WW2 Roll of Honour, Rabaul Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Sergeant, 402844
11 Nov 1940: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 402844, No. 24 Squadron (RAAF), Enlisted at Sydney
11 Nov 1940: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 402844
Date unknown: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 402844

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Alfred Ernest James Blackman and Sarah Jane Blackman; husband of Marjorie Flornce Balckman of Homebush, NSW

Plane was a Wirraway which crashed in to the sea near Rabaul, Ppaua New Guinea

Biography contributed by David Barlow

Sergeant Stanley Ernest Woodcroft 22630 and Sergeant Robert Alfred Blackman 402844 were killed when Wirraway A20-319 was shot down into the sea by Japanese Zero aircraft near Rabaul, New Guinea - they are commemorated on the Rabaul Memorial as their bodies were not recovered.