James Frank PETTIT

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PETTIT, James Frank

Service Numbers:	427935, W8767
Enlisted:	25 November 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	RAAF Telecommunications and Communications Units
Born:	Collie, Western Australia, 20 August 1922
Home Town:	Inglewood, Stirling, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Accidental (Aircraft accident), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 22 July 1944, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Qld ANZ 7 77 54, Lutwyche Cemetery, Lutwyche, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 427935
25 Nov 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, W8767, 16 Infantry Battalion AMF
11 Oct 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 427935, RAAF Telecommunications and Communications Units

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Flight Sergeant Pettit 427935 and Flight Sergeant Oswin 432860 were killed when their RAAF Vultee Vengeance aircraft A27 -535 (#41-31443) of Number of 4 Communications Unit stuck the mast of a ship in the Brisbane River and nose-dived into the river bank near Hamilton wharf

They were taking part in a naval co-operative exercise near Hamilton Flying Boat base

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