Leslie Roy DAWSON

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DAWSON, Leslie Roy

Service Number:	260968
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Squadron Leader
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia, 19 January 1904
Home Town:	Quirindi, Liverpool Plains, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Accidental (Aircraft accident), Mossman, Queensland, Australia, 7 September 1944, aged 40 years
Cemetery:	Cairns War Cemetery, Queensland Plot: Plot A. Row E. Collective Grave 1, Cairns Cemetery, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Rutherford Royal Newcastle Aero Club Roll of Honor

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Squadron Leader, 260968
Date unknown:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 260968

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of George Alfred Haigh Dawson and Mary Eliza Dawson; husband of Edna May Dawson, of Bondi Beach, New South Wales.

Biography contributed by David Barlow

Squadron Leader Leslie Roy Dawson 260968 was on Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force C-47 (Dakota) DT-941 (VH-RDK) which went missing on a flight from Merauke in PNG to Cairns with 20 personnel on board.

The wreckage was discovered north west of Mossman by a scientific expedition in January 1989. The remains of those killed were recovered from the crash scene in July 1989 and are interred in a Collective Grave at the Cairns War Cemetery.

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