Percy John LANCASTER

LANCASTER, Percy John

Service Number: 56456
Enlisted: 25 May 1942
Last Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit: Mobile Works Squadrons
Born: Whatford, England, 19 February 1907
Home Town: Eldorado, Wangaratta, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Ground Accident), Batchelor, Northern Territory, Australia, 7 July 1943, aged 36 years
Cemetery: Adelaide River War Cemetery, NT
F.A.5., Adelaide River War Cemetery, Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Eldorado WW2 Pictorial Honour Roll, Eldorado War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement 56456
25 May 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, Mobile Works Squadrons
25 May 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 56456

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of John and Doris Lancaster

Husband of Lorna Mabel Lancaster of Eldorado, Victoria

LAC Lancaster 56456 of Number 3 Mobile Works Squadron working at Gould airstrip (Batchelor, NT) was crushed by a tractor