Allan John KERRIGAN

KERRIGAN, Allan John

Service Number: 420681
Enlisted: 9 November 1941
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Granville, New South Wales, Australia, 18 August 1918
Home Town: Granville, Parramatta, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Ground Battle, Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, 23 May 1943, aged 24 years
Cemetery: Bournemouth North Cemetery, England
Bournemouth North Cemetery, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Flight Sergeant, 420681
9 Nov 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 420681

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Attack by Luftwaffe FW190 aircraft which damaged hotels in Bournemouth administered by RAAF Number 3 Personnel Despatch & Reception Centre as leave / recreation centres.

3PDRC operated in Bournemouth from July 1941 to January 1946 administering RAAF and some RCAF personnel.  21 airmen were killed in the raid: 3 members of the RAF; 13 RCAF and 7 RAAF

Crabbe, Colin Bernard (Flight Sergeant) 420453

Fenton, Ronald Franklin (Sergeant) 412938

Gray, Neil Morton (Sergeant) 420618

Kerrigan, Allan (Flight Sergeant) 420681

McMahon, John Francis (Flight Sergeant) 409848

Mills, George Arthur (Sergeant) 33250

Pope, Vivian Lewis (Sergeant) 416993

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