Arthur Maxwell JOHNSTON

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JOHNSTON, Arthur Maxwell

Service Number:	404784
Enlisted:	8 November 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Mt. Molloy, Queensland, Australia, 9 March 1915
Home Town:	Mount Molloy, Tablelands, Queensland
Schooling:	Cairns Technical College, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Sawmill Manager
Died:	Flying Battle, Germany, 3 July 1942, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany Plot 15. Row B. Collective Grave 9-18.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 404784
8 Nov 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 404784

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Wellington Z1381 of 460SQN was shot down 3 July 1942 at Kressendorf (Lingen), Germany with 3 crewmen killed - Sergeant Darryl Downing 407709 RAAF / Flight Sergeant Arthur Maxwell Johnston 404784 RAAF / Sergeant William James Taylor 407775 RAAF

Survivors were Sergeant David August Radke 405139 RAAF POW - discharged 1945 / Sergeant William Gerald Reed DCM 402479 RAAF POW - discharged 1946

Sergeant Maxwell Joseph Andrew Wyllie 405001 RAAF was killed in an escape attempt in April 1943

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