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DAW, Gilbert Francis
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 406348 |
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Enlisted: | 11 November 1940 |
Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
Born: | Ravensthorpe, Western Australia, 9 September 1920 |
Home Town: | Albany, Albany, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Flying Accident, Dee Why Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 3 November 1942, aged 22 years |
Cemetery: |
Rookwood Sydney War Cemetery, New South Wales A B 8, |
Memorials: | Albany War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Wongan Hills War Memorial |
Biography contributed by David Barlow
Flying Officer Gilbert Francis Daw 406348 and Flight Sergeant Leonard Breen 3293 were killed when Wirraway aircraft A20-109 of Number 24 Squadron RAAF crashed at Dee Why Beach in Sydney, NSW