James Bruce HALBERT

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Service Number:	406006
Enlisted:	27 April 1940
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Cunderdin, Western Australia, 11 March 1915
Home Town:	Cunderdin, Cunderdin, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Flying Battle, Mediterranean Sea, Middle East, 15 April 1942, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Alamein Memorial, El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Marsa Matruh, Egypt
Memorials:	Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cunderdin War Memorial Drive, South Perth Wesley College Lych Gate, Wembley Downs Hale School Honour Roll 2, Wembley Downs Hale School Memorial Grove

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flying Officer, 406006
27 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 406006

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Maryland AH298 of 203 Squadron RAF crashed in the Mediterranean Sea with all crew killed

Flying Officer Eric Neville Sommerville 402069 RAAF (previously with 39SQN RAF)

Flight Sergeant Herbert Rogers 404042 RAAF

Flying Officer James Bruce Halbert 406006 RAAF

Flight Sergeant Norman Gordon 755901 RAF

Their bodies were not recovered and they are commemorated on the Alamein Memorial