Gerard Michael KEOGH

KEOGH, Gerard Michael

Service Number: 266551
Enlisted: 13 July 1942, Enlisted at Melbourne
Last Rank: Flying Officer
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Sale, Victoria, Australia, 26 March 1903
Home Town: East Maitland, Maitland Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Mine Manager
Died: Flying Battle, New Guinea, 30 August 1943, aged 40 years
Cemetery: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Sec. 82. Coll. grave 34. United States of America
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Flying Officer, 266551
13 Jul 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 266551, Enlisted at Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Edmund Anthony and Hessie Jane Keogh; husband of Justina Marguerite Keogh of East Maitland, NSW

Plane was B-24DI number 42-40984 which crashed at Bootless Bay, New Guinea while on a supply dropping mission. It had failed to gain sufficient height to clear sheer and struck a cliff just below the summit