Barry Mortimer COX

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COX, Barry Mortimer

Service Number:	260706
Enlisted:	12 February 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Lieutenant
Last Unit:	No. 75 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Summer HIll, Sydney, New South Wales, 9 October 1915
Home Town:	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Stockbroker's clerk
Died:	Flying Battle, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 28 April 1942, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Port Moresby Memorial, Papua New Guinea. Panel 9.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Moresby (Bomana) Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Lieutenant, 260706
12 Feb 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 260706, No. 75 Squadron (RAAF)
28 Apr 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 260706, No. 75 Squadron (RAAF), Air War SW Pacific 1941-45

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Flight Lieutenant Cox 260706 (706) of 75SQN RAAF was killed when Kittyhawk A29-47 was shot down near Port Moresby, New Guinea intercepting a force of Japanese bombers with fighter escort - his body was not recovered and he is commemorated on the Port Moresby Memorial

The Commanding Officer of 75SQN - Squadron Leader John Francis Jackson 493 DFC, MID - was also killed in this action while flying Kittyhawk A29-8

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