Gilbert Francis DAW

DAW, Gilbert Francis

Service Number: 406348
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
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Memorials: Albany War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Wongan Hills War Memorial
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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