William Lionel GIBBS

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GIBBS, William Lionel

Service Number:	402922
Enlisted:	11 November 1940, Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Pilot Officer
Last Unit:	No. 83 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Shepparton, Victoria, Australia, 29 January 1912
Home Town:	Griffith, Griffith, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer & Grazier
Died:	Flying Battle, Netherlands, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 13 May 1943, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery, Netherlands Plot 13. Row 7. Grave 126.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Griffith Cenotaph, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Pilot Officer, 402922
11 Nov 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 402922, No. 83 Squadron (RAAF), Sydney, NSW

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William Mark and Isabella Daphne Gibbs; husband of Dorothy Jean Gibbs, of Griffith, New South Wales, Australia.

AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN WE WILL REMEMBER HIM

Subsequent to thorough investigation by Missing Research Personnel operating in Europe, it was established by interrogation of villagers, that the aircraft after having been attacked by an enemy night fighter, was observed to have crashed half a mile west of the village of Eemnes, Province of Utrecht, Holland on the morning of 13th of May 1943.

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