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FRASER, Alexander John
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | V270369, 430145 |
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Enlisted: | 12 December 1941 |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | Royal Canadian Air Force Training Units |
Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 March 1923 |
Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
Schooling: | Foster High School and Melbourne Scotch College |
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" No known grave, Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lost Airmen of the Empire, Patricia Bay, Canada, Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada |
Service History
World War 2 Service
12 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Private, V270369, Hawthorn, Victoria | |
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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) |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
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