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HARPS-BURT, Ernest Albert
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 441279 |
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Enlisted: | 19 June 1943 |
Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
Last Unit: | No. 1 Operational Training Unit (RAAF) Nhill, Bairnsdale, East Sale |
Born: | Kew Victoria Australia , 30 May 1925 |
Home Town: | Mount Lawley, Vincent, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Flying Battle, near Sanga Sanga airstrip Tawi Borneo, 11 June 1945, aged 20 years |
Cemetery: |
Labuan War Cemetery Plot 24. Row B. Grave 11 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by Graham Padget
Ernest Albert Harps-Burt was the son of Stanley Ernest and Reta Mary Harps-Burt, of Mount Hawthorn. Western Australia.
On 8 June, Flying Officers Woodham and Harps-Burt, Flight Lieutenant Wymond and Warrant Officer Royds, flew to Sanga Sanga Bombao Island Borneo to provide anti-mosquito spraying of Labuan and other invasion areas. On 11 June 1945, Harps-Burt and his crew were killed instantly when A9-718 crashed into Bombao Island and burst into flames.