Violet May GUNNING

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GUNNING, Violet May

Service Number:	93345
Enlisted:	14 March 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Air Force Headquarters
Born:	Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 27 November 1917
Home Town:	Heathcote, Sutherland Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Aircraft Accident, Archerfield Airfield, Queensland, Australia , Amberley, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 27 March 1943, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Qld ANZ 7 75 47, Lutwyche Cemetery, Lutwyche, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Nambucca Heads War Memorial, Parkes & District Cenotaph

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Corporal, 93345
14 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Corporal, Air Force Headquarters
14 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 93345

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Daughter of Walter Milton Gunning and Beatrice Mary Gunning of Heathcote, NSW (her brother also died while serving in the RAAF - Aircraftman Milton Robert 36276 of 2 Service Flying Training School Wagga drowned in surf at Nambucca Heads, NSW in November 1941)

Douglas DC3 (C-47) VH-CTB, A30-16 (A65-2) of 36 Squadron RAAF Townsville was involved in a fatal accident at Archerfield Aerodrome with a total of all 23 personnel on board killed making this the 10th Worst Air Disaster in Australia (see ozatwar for more info). The crew of four RAAF personnel were killed as were all passengers consisting of 17 Australian and 2 American personnel.

RAAF Personnel:

Flying Officer Alexander Kenn Arnold (pilot) 36 Squadron RAAF

Sergeant Joseph Hammond (co-pilot) 36 Squadron RAAF

Sergeant Lyle Carter Morgan (Wireless Operator) 36 Squadron RAAF

LAC Samuel Ivan Wiles (Fitter) 36 Squadron RAAF

Sergeant John Atherton HQ North Eastern Area, Townsville

LAC Thomas William Beckley 20 Signals Unit, Townsville

Pilot Officer David Andrew Blackley 20 Signals Unit, Townsville

LAC John Edward Chinner 3 Fighter Sector, Townsville

Sergeant Robert William Tylden Chisholm 1 Reserve Personnel Pool, Garbutt

LAC Kevin Francis Flanagan 9 Mobile Fighter Sector, Milne Bay

LAC Charles Paton Eric Fly 12 Signals Unit, Townsville

Sergeant Max Irvenia Thomas Jarvis 28 Radar Finding Unit, Fitzroy Island, Cairns

LAC Terrence Joseph Kelly 12 Signals Unit, Townsville

LAC Kenneth Owen Paton 11 Squadron, RAAF

Pilot Officer Alfred Tatlock 20 Signals Unit, Townsville

LAC Geoffrey Frederick Waters 1 Transport and Movement Office, Sydney

Corporal Thomas Keith McDowell Watt 28 Radar Finding Unit, Fitzroy Island, Cairns

WAAAF Personnel:

Corporal Violet May Gunning WAAAF Brisbane W/T Station

Corporal Ruth Ada Hills WAAAF Brisbane W/T Station

ACW Florence May Jackson WAAAF Brisbane W/T Station

Australian Army Personnel:

Lieutenant Irwin Leo Smith A.C.M.F. 2 L. of C. Sub Area, Australian Headquarters

US Army Personnel: Major Eugene H. Halliwell (0-393127) and 1st Lieutenant Francis M. Skinner (0-430024)

The DC-2's had been allocated the series A30 by the RAAF and when the first DC-3's arrived on the scene they had initially been allocated the same RAAF Series No. This was due to be rectified at a later stage when the A65 Serial No. was allocated to them. Thus VH-CTB was scheduled to be renumbered to A65-2 after 17 April 1943.

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