Noel Swanston JAY

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JAY, Noel Swanston

Service Number:	413204
Enlisted:	16 August 1941
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 8 Elementary Flying Training School Narrandera
Born:	Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, 6 May 1912
Home Town:	Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland
Schooling:	Ipswich & Toowong, Queensland & Mullumbimby school, NSW
Occupation:	Shop Assistant
Died:	Accidental (Flying Accident), Leeton, New South Wales, Australia, 17 August 1943, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	Narrandera War Cemetery, New South Wales Row D, Grave 8
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 413204
16 Aug 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 413204, No. 8 Elementary Flying Training School Narrandera

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Flight Sergeant Jay 413204 from Number 8 Elementary Flying Training School at Narrandera was killed in the loss of RAAF Tiger Moth aircraft A17-68 approximately 5 miles east of Leeton, NSW - LAC Geoffrey Alexander Staehli 433398 was injured in the incident, he was discharged from the RAAF in October 1945

Biography contributed

Noel Swanston JAY was born in Byron Bay, NSW on 6th Mary, 1912

His parents were William Gladstone JAY & Ethel Maud SWANSTON who married in Sydney in 1909

He married Thelma Mary TURNER on 31st July, 1943 in Queensland

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