Leonard Gower PAXMAN

PAXMAN, Leonard Gower

    Service Number: 420999
    Enlisted: 6 December 1941
    Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
    Last Unit: No. 158 Squadron (RAF)
    Born: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 7 October 1918
    Home Town: Naremburn, Willoughby, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Printer
    Died: Halifax bomber shot down over Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, 31 March 1944, aged 25 years
    Cemetery: Hanover War Cemetery
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Maryborough No. 3 Wireless Air Gunners' School Memorial Wall
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    World War 2 Service

    6 Dec 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 420999, Aircrew Training Units
    6 Dec 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 420999
    1 Apr 1942: Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, No. 3 Wireless Air Gunnery School Maryborough , Posted to No. 3 WAGS, RAAF Maryborough for training as a Wireless Air Gunner on Course 24, completed on course 25.
    15 Oct 1942: Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head, Posted to No. 1 BAGS, Evans Head for Air Gunner Training.
    30 Mar 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 420999, No. 158 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45, Wireless Operator crewing LW724, radio call sign NP-S, during the air attack on Nuremberg on the night of 30 March 1944. Their aircraft was shot down by a German aircraft and crashed near Herborn-Seelbach. Bomb Aimer FO Shanahan bailed out and was taken prisoner of war in Germany. The rest of the crew were killed.

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