Alexander John (John) FRASER

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Service Numbers:	V270369, 430145
Enlisted:	12 December 1941
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Royal Canadian Air Force Training Units
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 March 1923
Home Town:	Malvern East, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling:	Foster High School and Melbourne Scotch College, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Accidental (training air crash), Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 19 May 1944, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Panel 3. Column 5.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lost Airmen of the Empire, Patricia Bay, Canada, Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada

12 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Private, V270369, Hawthorn, Victoria
12 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V270369
30 Dec 1942:	Discharged Private, V270369, Bulk Issue Petrol and Oil Depots
31 Dec 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 430145, Melbourne, Victoria
31 Dec 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 430145
19 May 1944:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 430145, Royal Canadian Air Force Training Units, Empire Air Training Scheme, 32 Operational Training Unit (RCAF Patricia Bay)

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Beechcraft Expeditor HB 129 vanished during night nav exercise between Tofino and Port Hardy, BC - (Information sourced by Doug Rollins)

Other Crew members who perished in that accident;

129346 F/O Harry MERRILL - RAF of Bethesda, Wales

164428 F/O Edward Bousfield MACHELL - RAF of Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire