DOUGLAS, Hamilton Alexander
| Service Number: | 405843 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 June 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer |
| Last Unit: | Operational Training Units (RAF) |
| Born: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 18 July 1922 |
| Home Town: | Mackay, Mackay, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bank clerk - Union Bank |
| Died: | Accidental (Flying Accident), Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, 18 March 1944, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Fogo Churchyard, Fogo, Berwickshire, Scotland Sec. E Grave 4 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Melbourne Union Bank of Australia Limited 'In Memoriam' WW2 Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 21 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 405843 | |
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| 18 Mar 1944: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 405843, Operational Training Units (RAF), Empire Air Training Scheme, Killed in training accident - 54 Operational Training Unit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Warrant Officer Hamilton Alexander Douglas 405843 was severely injured when Martinet EM481 of 53 Operational Training Unit RAF stalled on take-off from RAF Station Winfield in Berwickshire, Scotland and crashed ¼ mile south of the airfield - he died shortly after being admitted to hospital
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Stuart Thorncliffe Douglas and Hilda Mabel Douglas, of Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia.
TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE
OBITUARY
WARRANT-OFFICER H. A.
DOUGLAS.
Advice was received by Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Douglas, of James street, Mackay, yesterday afternoon of the death overseas, as a result of an air accident, of their only son, Warrant-Officer . Hamilton Alexander Douglas, RAAF, at the age of 21. Lex Douglas, as he was known to his friends, was a bright and popular boy in Mackay, where he spent most of his life. He enlisted in Mackay when he was 18, and after receiving his early training in Australia, went to England where he eventually became a Spitfire pilot. Last year he had a very bad accident, and for a time his life was despaired of, but fortutately, he recovered, and his chief ambition then was to get back into the air, which he succeeded in doing. Since then he has been piloting a Martinet machine. The accident In which he lost his life occurred last Saturday. The sympathy of the community will be extended to the bereaved parents in their great loss.
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