GRAY, Oberlin Benjamin Plester
| Service Number: | 408225 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 May 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 13 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 1 May 1921 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Friends School, Hobart |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Flying Battle, Timor, 23 April 1942, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Adelaide River Northern Territory Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 22 May 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, No. 13 Squadron (RAAF) | |
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| 23 Apr 1942: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 408225 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Son of Arthur Plester Gray and Lena Mabel Gray of North Bruny, Tasmania
RAAF Lockheed Hudson aircraft A16-182 of Number 2 Squadron failed to return from an operational mission to Koepang, NEI - all crew were killed:
Sergeant David Vynne Woods 416294
Flight Lieutenant Roger Joseph Blanchard 260776
Sergeant David Jacobs 411328
Sergeant Oberlin Benjamin Plester Gray 408225
All crew are commemorated on the Northern Territory Memorial to the Missing located at Adelaide River War Cemetery, NT
Biography contributed
Oberlin Benjamin Plester GRAY was born in Hobart, Tasmania on 1st May, 1921
His parents were Arthur Plester GRAY & Eleanor Mabel (Lena) FULLER who married in Lewes in Sussex UK in 1918
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