PETTIT, James Frank
Service Numbers: | 427935, W8767 |
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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 | |
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25 Nov 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (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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Add my storyBiography 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