Morgan James PARRY

PARRY, Morgan James

Service Numbers: 428877, N251631
Enlisted: 10 December 1941
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Auchenflower, Queensland, Australia, 27 December 1922
Home Town: Ashfield, Ashfield, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Senior Audit Clerk
Died: Flying Battle, Germany, 16 March 1945, aged 22 years
Cemetery: Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany
Plot 9. Row A. Grave 4. Local Roll of Honour- Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Flight Sergeant, 428877
10 Dec 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N251631
12 Oct 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 428877
12 Oct 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 428877
16 Mar 1945: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 428877, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Lancaster PB816 of Number 460 Squadron crashed near Spielbach, Germany with only one survivor: Flight Sergeant Alan Webster Halls 429151 who became a POW after baling out.

RAF Sergeant AJ MacDonald along with Flight Sergeant Milton Keith Jurd 435564 / Flight Sergeant James William Prouse 431468 / Flight Sergeant Kenneth William Binder 431194 / Flight Sergeant Morgan James Parry 428877 were all killed outright.

Flying Officer Vernon James Hedley 409303 was shot while evading capture after baling out.  Details of his death are covered in the book "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Oliver Clutton-Brock

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