John Ormond O'BRIEN

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Service Number:	403876
Enlisted:	4 March 1941
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 49 Squadron (RAF)
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 19 March 1919
Home Town:	Gordon, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Flying Battle, North Sea, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, New South Wales, Australia, 21 June 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, Botany General Cemetery, Botany, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, 403876
4 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force
4 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 403876
20 Jun 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 403876, No. 49 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

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Manchester L7387 of 49SQN RAF crashed in the North Sea, off the coast of Holland / Sweden with all on board killed:

PRICE, Harrington Warren (Sergeant) 402539 RAAF (buried in Vredenhof Cemetery on Schiermonnikoog Island, Friesland, Netherlands)

McKENNA, Terence Francis Breen (Sergeant) 405162 RAAF (buried in Kviberg Cemetery, Goteborg, Västergötland, Sweden)

O’BRIEN, John Ormond (Sergeant) 403876 RAAF (body not recovered - he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial)

ALLEN, Keith (Sergeant) 401359 RAAF (body not recovered - he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial)

GOLDRING, Charles Edward (Sergeant) 657308 RAF (body not recovered - he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial)

ROGERS, Neville John (Sergeant) 778781 RAF (body not recovered - he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial)

GAROS, Alexander (Sergeant) 778783 RAF (body not recovered - he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial)