HILL, Gordon
| Service Number: | 434747 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 January 1943, Brisbane, Qld. |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 1 Air Observers School Cootamundra |
| Born: | Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 23 February 1923 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Toowong State School, Brisbane Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Accidental (Flying Accident), Ballina, New South Wales, Australia, 22 May 1944, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Evans Head War Cemetery, NSW Plot B Row D Grave 2 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Knockrow RAAF Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sergeant, 434747 | |
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| 21 Jan 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 434747, No. 1 Air Observers School Cootamundra, Brisbane, Qld. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Only son of Lockhart James Hill and Ethel Amanda Hill, of Toowong, Queensland.
FOUR AIMEN KILLED IN
CRASH
SYDNEY. Tuesday.
Four Queensland airmen were killed when an R.A.A.F. aircraft crashed during training exercises in northern N.S.W. They were Flight-Lieut. Ernest Shackel. pilot; Flying Officer Trevor Woodgate, navigator-instructor; Warrant Officer Edmund Kiely Ahearn, wireless air-gunner; and L.A.C. Gordon Hill, trainee navigator.
Biography contributed by David Barlow
Avro Anson A4-20 from Number 1 Air Observers School crashed near Ballina in NSW killing Warrant Officer Ahern 404758 / Sergeant Hill 434747 / Flight Lieutenant Shackell 270755 / Flying Officer Woodgate 405283
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