Victor Leo DEARMAN

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DEARMAN, Victor Leo

Service Number:	402049
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Perth, Western Australia, 4 October 1914
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Flying Battle, At sea - Mediterranean, Middle East, 29 July 1941, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	El Alamein War Cemetery El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Marsa Matruh, Egypt
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flying Officer, 402049

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Maryland aircraft AH297 of 39 Squadron RAF was lost in the Mediterranean Sea while conducting a photographic reconnaissance of Crete, with the bodies of the crew washing ashore in Egypt

The crew consisted of

Flying Officer Victor Lee Dearman 402049 RAAF

Sergeant Bryan Richard Fitzgerald 400169 RAAF

Flight Lieutenant Richard Anthony Lewis DFC 40545 RAF

Sergeant Henry Thomas Downs 535924 RAF

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