Herbert Charles HOFFMANN

HOFFMANN, Herbert Charles

Service Numbers: 76459, Q123262
Enlisted: 22 December 1941
Last Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit: Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
Born: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4 April 1908
Home Town: Coorparoo, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Ground Accident), Pell, Northern Territory, Australia, 21 April 1944, aged 36 years
Cemetery: Adelaide River War Cemetery, Northern Territory
P.D.14., Adelaide River War Cemetery, Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bundaberg Civic Centre Memorial Portico
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement 76459
22 Dec 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q123262
6 Jul 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
6 Jul 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 76459

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of William Marcel and Harriet Lucy Hoffman

Husband of Dorothy May Hoffman of Coorparoo, Queensland

 

Leading Aircraftman Herbert Charles Hoffman 76459 and Flying Officer Frederick William Miller 17364 of Number 14 Aircraft Repair Depot (Mobile Oxygen Plant detachment) working at Number 4 Repair and Salvage Unit were killed in an oxygen bottle explosion at Pell, NT

(details on incident from the book “Restore to Service” by Walter Venn)