Alfred Buckley KIRKWOOD

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KIRKWOOD, Alfred Buckley

Service Number:	410676
Enlisted:	31 January 1942, Melbourne, Vic.
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	No. 7 Service Flying Training School Deniliquin
Born:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 27 July 1923
Home Town:	Prahran, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling:	Bendigo Junior Technical School, Bendigo School of Mines
Occupation:	Mechanic - Acme Knitt Mills
Died:	Accidental, Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia, 1 December 1942, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Deniliquin War Cemetery, New South Wales Plot D. Row A. Grave 1.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement 410676
31 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 410676, No. 7 Service Flying Training School Deniliquin, Melbourne, Vic.

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Albert Buckley Kirkwood and Frederica Alice Maud Kirkwood, of Prahran, Victoria.

Planes Crash : Two Killed
The Air Board announced today that LAC William Joseph Woodbury, 19, single, of Thornbury (Vic), and LAC Alfred Buckley Kirkwood, 19, single, of Prahran were killed on Tuesday, when two RAAF training aircraft crashed separately near Deniliquin. Both aircraft were destroyed.

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