Martin John Frusher FOLEY

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FOLEY, Martin John Frusher

Service Number:	430205
Enlisted:	1 January 1943, Melbourne, Vic.
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	No. 7 Service Flying Training School Deniliquin
Born:	Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, 15 October 1924
Home Town:	Lakes Entrance, East Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling:	Bairnsdale High School, Wesley College Melbourne
Occupation:	Student
Died:	Accidental, Deniliquin, Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia, 1 November 1943, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Deniliquin War Cemetery, New South Wales Plot D, Row A, Grave 16
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lakes Entrance and District War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement 430205
1 Jan 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 430205, No. 7 Service Flying Training School Deniliquin, Melbourne, Vic.

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Henry John and Ada Maud Foley of East Gippsland, Victoria

Plane was Wirraway A20-307 which crashed south of Deniliquin after having collided with another Wirraway. Martin was doing a solo flight and clocked up 152 hours as a pilot.

PLANES COLLIDE.
Airman Killed in N.S.W.
MELBOURNE, Nov 3.-LAC Martin John Frusher Foley, of Lakes Entrance, was killed and LAC Ewin Douglas Milliken, of Middle Brighton, was slightly injured on Sunday when two aircraft on training flights from a RAAF station in New South Wales collided in mid-air and crashed.

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