Cosmo Louis MOONEY

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MOONEY, Cosmo Louis

Service Number:	44711
Enlisted:	16 March 1942
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	RAAF Ground Training Schools
Born:	Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 26 May 1916
Home Town:	Gin Gin, Bundaberg, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Accidental (Flying Accident), Evans Head, New South Wales, Australia, 7 June 1943, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Evans Head War Cemetery, NSW Plot B Row C Grave 10, Evans Head War Cemetery, Evans Head, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bundaberg Civic Centre Memorial Portico, Gin Gin War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement 44711
16 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 44711, RAAF Ground Training Schools
16 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 44711

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Fairey Battle aircraft L4941 & L5650 from Number 1 Bombing & Gunnery School suffered a mid-air collision near Evans Head

Sergeant Finch 417171 and LAC Mooney 44711 were killed in aircraft L5650

Flight Sergeant Neville Graham Monroe 404979 (discharged from the RAAF in February 1945), LAC Colin Henry Wheatley 425913 (discharged from the RAAF in January 1946) & LAC Noel White 434066 (discharged from the RAAF in March 1946) all survived the incident in aircraft L4941

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