NOBLE, James Ian Brisbane
| Service Number: | 36496 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 September 1944, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 16 August 1914 |
| Home Town: | Inverell, Inverell, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Woodwork Machinist |
| Died: | Flying Accident, Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, 11 September 1944, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
Evans Head War Cemetery, NSW Plot B Row B Grave 7. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Glen Innes Cemetery RAAF Memorial, Inverell Flanders House WW2 Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 36496 | |
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| 11 Sep 1944: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 36496, No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head | |
| 11 Sep 1944: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 36496, No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head, Sydney, NSW |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John and Annie Jemima Noble; husband of Lottie Ethel Rose Noble, of Inverell.
The tragedy occurred about 150 yards from the home of Sergeant Noble's parents. Eye-witnesses say that the plane flew low, apparently to salute Noble's mother and father. There was an explosion, and one wing appeared to break off. The aircraft crashed in a lane near the weatherboard home of Rex Eimer. When the plane struck the ground it toppled over on to the house and burst into flames. Residents ran to help the occupants but they were driven back by the intense heat as the house and aircraft burned fiercely. The house was unoccupied. Part of the wreckage of the air craft fell into the yard of the pilots parents, who went with others to try to rescue their son.
The Presbyterian Minister at Inverell (Rev. Chas Mayes) this morning had the distressing duty of breaking to Mrs. Ian Noble, of Ross Hill, the tragic news that her husband, Flight- Sergt. Noble, has been killed in an aircraft accident. The sympathy of the community will be extended to Mrs. Noble in her bereavement.
NOBLE. —September 11, 1944, in aircraft accident at Glen Innes, Flight-Sergeant James Ian Brisbane Noble, loving husband of Rose, and dear daddy of Fred and Jim, of 10 Rosslyn Street, Inverell, aged 30 years. Interred Evans Head, September 13.
Biography contributed by David Barlow
Avro Anson LT781 of Number 1 Air Observer School crashed near Glen Innes, NSW killing all on board: ERVIN, William John (LAC) 431474 / OSBORNE, William Henry (Pilot Officer) 411513 / EDWARDS, Roy Cecil (LAC) 440278 / NOBLE, James Ian Brisbane (Flight Sergeant) 36496 / McCORMACK, Joan Mary (Sergeant) 92527 of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force
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