Melville Arthur Chaloner OLIVE

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OLIVE, Melville Arthur Chaloner

Service Number:	405600
Enlisted:	26 April 1941
Last Rank:	Pilot Officer
Last Unit:	No. 2 Service Flying Training School Forest Hill
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 18 December 1917
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Bank Clerk
Died:	Accidental (Flying Accident), Point Cook, Victoria, Australia, 28 January 1942, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland Columbarium Wall 2 Section 7 Niche 546
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Pilot Officer, 405600
26 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 405600, No. 2 Service Flying Training School Forest Hill

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Gipsy Moth A7-74 from the General Reconnaissance School at Laverton crashed 2 miles SW of Point Cook aerodrome in sea mouth of the Werribee River killing Pilot Officer Melville Arthur Chaloner Olive 405600 (Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens, Brisbane) and Pilot Officer Edward Miles Beaumont 408791 (Burwood General Cemetery, Victoria)

Biography contributed

Melville Arthur Chaloner OLIVE was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 18th December, 1917

His parents were Hugh Chalonor OLIVE & Maud Lucinda EXLEY

He married Olive Mabel WRIGHT in Queensland on 9th August, 1941

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