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LOVELLE-DRAPER, Adrian Mervyn
Service Number: | 413624 |
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Enlisted: | 12 September 1941 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | Operational Training Units (RAF) |
Born: | Malvern, Victoria, Australia, 9 January 1916 |
Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Unknown |
Occupation: | Commercial Traveller |
Died: | Accidental, United Kingdom Coast, 19 August 1943, aged 27 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" At sea |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial |
World War 2 Service
12 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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12 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 413624 | |
19 Aug 1943: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 413624, Operational Training Units (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45, 12 Operational Training Unit (RAF) - Wellington Bombers |
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Adrian Mervyn LOVELLE-DRAPER was born on 9th January, 1916 in East Malvern, Victoria
His parents were Robert Henry LOVELLE-DRAPER and Ila Louise RYAN
He married Fay Zelda CLARKE in 1940 in Sydney
Adrian enlisted with the Royal Australian Air Force on 12th September, 1941
He was lost at sea on 19th August 1943 off the English coast in a Wellington Bomber No. BJ587-& presumed deceased -
Adrian is commemorated in the Runnymede Memorial, the Australian War Memorial & the Roll of Honour in Melbourne - posting at death was 12 Operational Training Unit (RAF)