James Stewart MCGOLDRICK

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MCGOLDRICK, James Stewart

Service Number:	404846
Enlisted:	6 December 1940
Last Rank:	Squadron Leader
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 19 July 1918
Home Town:	Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk - Queensland Railways
Died:	Accidental (Flying Accident), Narromine, New South Wales, Australia, 27 July 1945, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Narromine War Cemetery A B 8, Narromine War Cemetery, Narromine, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Narromine-Based Airmen Killed in Air Crashes 1940-45 Memorial Plaque, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW2, Toowoomba WW2 Roll of Honour Book, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial)

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Squadron Leader, 404846
6 Dec 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 404846

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Squadron Leader McGoldrick 404846 was killed when Mosquito MK6 HR614 of 618SQN RAF crashed 3 kilometres south-east of Narromine Aerodrome in NSW and caught fire on impact

Also killed was Flight Lieutenant (Nav) Francis James French RAF 127458

Squadron Leader McGoldrick saw operational service in the UK with 618SQN RAF

(Note – McGoldrick and French had accompanied 618SQN when it redeployed from the UK to Narromine. 8OTU had left Narromine four months before 618SQN arrived there).

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