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FAHEY, Francis Felix

Service Number:	406352
Enlisted:	11 November 1940
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 12 Squadron (RAF)
Born:	Fremantle Western Australia, November 1912
Home Town:	Wiluna, Wiluna, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Flying Battle, Dry Dayton United Kingdom, 6 January 1944
Cemetery:	Cambridge City Cemetery, United Kingdom Grave 13731
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

World War 2 Service

11 Nov 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 406352, No. 5 Initial Training School Pearce
11 Nov 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 406352
11 Mar 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 406352, No. 12 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
4 Jun 1942:	Honoured Air Force Cross, Air War NW Europe 1939-45
24 Dec 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 406352, Air War NW Europe 1939-45, 627 Squadron (RAF)

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Biography contributed by Graham Padget

Francis Felix Fahey was the son of John Patrick and Margaret Fahey; husband of Laurel May Fahey of Wiluna, Western Australia.

On the night of 6th January 1944, Flying Officer Francis Felix Fahey's Mosquito Bomber DZ616 took off from RAF Oakington at 0123 hours, detailed to bomb Berlin. The aircraft crashed two minutes later at Dry Drayton, six miles north west of Cambridge.

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