Jack Frederick KNAPP

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KNAPP, Jack Frederick

Service Number:	415664
Enlisted:	7 December 1941
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 142 Squadron (RAF)
Born:	Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, 19 October 1920
Home Town:	East Fremantle, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Fremantle Boys School, Western Australia
Occupation:	Printer
Died:	Flying Battle, Issime, Italy, 24 November 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Milan War Cemetery Collective grave Plot V1, Row B, Grave 6, Milan War Cemetery, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 415664
7 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 415664, No. 142 Squadron (RAF), Enlisted at Perth, WA
7 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 415664
15 Jan 1943:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 415664, No. 142 Squadron (RAF), Embarked at Melbourne for UK

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Henry Lee Knapp and Daisy Amelia of EAst Fremantle, WA

Plane was Wellington LN466 which crashed into a mountain near Issime, Italy while on air operations over Turin and it was almost two years before the crew's remains were recovered as the mountain has very steep slopes is inaccessible except for about 2 months each year

Prior to enlisted he had been apprenticed to Port & Salmon, Printers of Fremantle, WA

Sports played at school were:- football, badminton, tennis, swimming

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