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DOLPHIN, Arnold Victor
Service Number: | Nil |
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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, NT 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 | |
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18 Jan 1937: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer | |
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flying Officer |
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Add my storyBiography 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)