Frank Lawrence PARTON

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PARTON, Frank Lawrence

Service Number:	32589
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Pilot Officer
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, 28 December 1915
Home Town:	Penshurst, Hurstville, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Accidental (Flying Accident), Mareeba, Queensland, Australia, Mareeba, Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia, 12 June 1943, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Atherton War Cemetery, Queensland A.B.1., Atherton War Cemetery, Atherton, Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Pilot Officer, 32589

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of James Farmer Parton and Elsie Frances Parton

Husband of Ethel Parton of Penshurst, NSW

Flight Lieutenant Frank Lawrence Parton 32589 (Pilot) and Sergeant Gordon Francis Blanch 420827 (Navigator) of Number 5 Squadron were killed when Wirraway A20-289 entered a flick stall during an A/A exercise and crashed at Mareeba in tropical north Queensland

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