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, NT
    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 (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)

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