John Warren Alexander FARTHING

FARTHING, John Warren Alexander

    Service Number: 421860
    Enlisted: 28 March 1942
    Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
    Last Unit: No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
    Born: Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia, 6 October 1923
    Home Town: Bellevue Hill, Woollahra, New South Wales
    Schooling: Scots College, Victoria, Australia
    Occupation: Student
    Died: Flying Battle, Binbrook Village United Kingdom, 2 January 1944, aged 20 years
    Cemetery: Cambridge City Cemetery, United Kingdom
    Grave 13951,
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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    World War 2 Service

    28 Mar 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 421860, Aircrew Training Units
    28 Mar 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 421860
    29 Mar 1942: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 421860, Aircrew Training Units, Empire Air Training Scheme
    20 Jun 1942: Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, Aircrew Training Units
    29 Jul 1942: Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 421860, Royal Canadian Air Force Training Units, Embarked at Melbourne. Disembarked in Canada on 6 Aug 1942.
    19 Mar 1943: Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, Royal Canadian Air Force Training Units
    7 Apr 1943: Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 421860, RAF Conversion Units , Embarked from Canada for U.K. Disembarking on 17 April 1943.
    8 Jun 1943: Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, RAF Conversion Units , 27 O.T.U. Night Bomber Ops Training in Vickers Wellington.
    1 Sep 1943: Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, RAF Conversion Units , 1667 H.C.U. Avro Lancaster
    19 Sep 1943: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 421860, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
    19 Sep 1943: Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
    19 Sep 1943: Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
    2 Jan 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 421860, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
    2 Jan 1944: Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 421860, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Killed when Lancaster JB 738 (AR-T) crashed six minutes after commencing a Berlin raid.

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    Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

    John Warren Alexander FARTHING was born in Rose Bay, Sydney on 6th October, 1923

    His parents were Frank FARTHING & Olive Alice MAYOR who married in Sydney in 1922

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