Peter CRIBB

CRIBB, Peter

Service Number: 405348
Enlisted: 3 March 1941
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia , 31 January 1922
Home Town: New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Ipswich Grammar School, Queensland, Australia
Occupation: Student
Died: Accidental (Lost at sea), Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia, 2 October 1942, aged 20 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Commemorated: - Panel 9, Sydney Memorial, Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bairnsdale Royal Australian Air Force Memorial, Julia Creek War Memorial, Sydney Memorial (Sydney War Cemetery) Rookwood
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Sergeant, 405348
3 Mar 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 405348

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - Eric Clarke Cribb and Freda Charlotte Olivia Watson married 19th January 1921 in Queensland, Australia.

Aircraft Beaufort A9-49 with all crew was lost without trace over Bass Strait, during a maritime reconnaissance mission between Bairnsdale,Victoria and Flinders Island, Tasmania. 

Crew members - Beaufort A9-49.

Unit: -   1 Operational Training Bairnsdale.

Sergeant Alfred John CARL (405540) RAAF

Sergeant Peter CRIBB (405348) RAAF

Sergeant Peter Kirk CROMBIE (408972) RAAF

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