John Ross CHARLEY

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CHARLEY, John Ross

Service Number:	424912
Enlisted:	9 October 1942
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Summer Hill, New South Wales, 20 May 1924
Home Town:	Summer Hill, Ashfield, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Jackeroo
Died:	Flying Battle, Gelsenkirchen, Netherlands, 6 October 1944, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery, Netherlands Plot 20, Row B, Grave 12 Headstone Inscription "BELOVED SON OF JOHN AND EILEEN CHARLEY"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 424912
9 Oct 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sydney, New South Wales
9 Oct 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 424912

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Biography

78 Squadron. Plane was Halifax MX310. Collided with another aircraft near Oude Tonge, Island of OverFlakee, Holland. One plane disintergrated on impact the other crashed ot earth and exploded on impact with the ground

Rank - Ft/Sgt

Medals: 12939-45 Star, France-Germany Star, Defence Medal

Son of Herbert John and Eileen Marie Gray Charley, of Summer Hill, New South Wales

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