GERRARD, John Ashton
| Service Number: | 11853 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 August 1940, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Pilot Officer |
| Last Unit: | No. 7 Service Flying Training School Deniliquin |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 July 1920 |
| Home Town: | Brighton, Bayside, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Jackeroo |
| Died: | Accidental, Deniliquin, Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia, 22 June 1944, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Deniliquin War Cemetery, New South Wales Plot D. Row C. Grave 2. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Pilot Officer, 11853 | |
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| 9 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 11853, No. 7 Service Flying Training School Deniliquin, Melbourne, Vic. |
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Son of John Archibald Primrose Gerrard and Nellie Gerrard, of Brighton, Victoria.
YOUNG AIRMAN
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
Pilot - Officer John Ashton Gerrard, 23, was killed in an aircraft accident at Deniliquln last Thursday, and was buried in the war cemetery at Deniliquin on Saturday. He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. P. ("Jerry") Gerrard, now of Brighton (Vic.). His father served with the AIF in the last war.
GERRARD.—On June 22, killed in aircraft accident at Deniliquin, Pilot-Officer John Ashton Gerrard, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. P. Gerrard, Orchard street, Brighton, and brother of Harry, Dorothy, and Paul, aged 23 years. (Interred War Cemetery, Deniliquin, June 24.)
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