Garth William Beresford BYE

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Service Number:	423628
Enlisted:	18 July 1942
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 461 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia., 25 March 1919
Home Town:	Bondi, Waverley, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Commercial Traveller, Malleys Ltd., Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died:	Flying Battle, Bay of Biscay, Atlantic Ocean, 29 November 1943, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Runnymede Memorial Englefield Green, Runnymede Borough, Surrey, England. Panel 187.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial

18 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 423628, Sydney, New South Wales
18 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 423628
29 Nov 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 423628, No. 461 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

Please refer to loss of HM Godsall for an account of the loss of Don Howe and crew

Submitted 3 December 2016 by Marshall Sheehan

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Garth was born in Neutral Bay, Sydney on 25th March, 1919

His parents were Stanley Cecil JOHNSON & Olivia Florence Wickham ORD who married in Sydney in 1914

He took on his stepfathers surname of BYE - He was Alfred BYE who married Olivia in 1925

He married Barbara Mildred JACKSON in Sydney in 1942