BLANCHARD, Roger Joseph
| Service Number: | 260776 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 March 1940, Enlisted at Mascot, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Flight Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 22 March 1916 |
| Home Town: | Werri Beach, Kiama, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Flying Battle, Koepang, Timor, Timor Sea, Netherlands East Indies, 23 April 1942, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Northern Territory Memorial Panel 6, Northern Territory Memorial, Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia |
| Memorials: | Adelaide River Northern Territory Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Lieutenant, 260776 | |
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| 4 Mar 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 260776, Enlisted at Mascot, NSW |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Joseph and Violet Blanchard of Lindfield, NSW; husband of Margaret Winifred Blanchard of Goulburn, NSW
Plane was a Hudson A16- 182 of 13 Squadron lost on an operational flight from Darwin to bomb Koepang, Timor
Biography contributed by David Barlow
RAAF Lockheed Hudson aircraft A16-182 of Number 2 Squadron failed to return from an operational mission to Koepang, NEI - all crew were killed:
Sergeant David Vynne Woods 416294
Flight Lieutenant Roger Joseph Blanchard 260776
Sergeant David Jacobs 411328
Sergeant Oberlin Benjamin Plester Gray 408225
All crew are commemorated on the Northern Territory Memorial to the Missing located at Adelaide River War Cemetery, NT
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