Arnold Victor DOLPHIN

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DOLPHIN, Arnold Victor

Service Number:	Nil
Enlisted:	18 January 1937
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	RAAF Laverton
Born:	Southend-On-Sea, England, 4 August 1916
Home Town:	Fairfield, Fairfield, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Flying Accident, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 5 September 1939, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Adelaide River War Cemetery, Northern Territory Q.A.16.
Memorials:	Bathurst High School Roll of Honour WW2

World War 2 Service

18 Jan 1937:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Nil, RAAF Laverton
18 Jan 1937:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer
3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flying Officer

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of Thomas Victor and Florence Dolphin of Fairfield, NSW

RAAF Wirraway aircraft A20-5 crashed as it was about to land at Darwin Aerodrome. It was one of five new aircraft being delivered to Number 12 Squadron from Laverton, with FLGOFF Arnold Victor Dolphin as the pilot and CPL Harold William Johnson 1727 as his Observer

These were the first RAAF casualties of WW2 (NB: FLGOFF Dolphin had not been allocated a Service Number)

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