Alan George PILKINGTON

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PILKINGTON, Alan George

Service Number:	406042
Enlisted:	25 May 1940
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 82 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Boulder, Western Australia, 3 July 1919
Home Town:	Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Flying Accident, At sea - off the coast of Japan, 18 March 1946, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Yokohama War Cemetery
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flying Officer, 406042
25 May 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force
25 May 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 406042, No. 82 Squadron (RAAF)
8 Aug 1945:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 406042, No. 82 Squadron (RAAF), Air War SE Asia 1941-45

Biography contributed by David Barlow

On the 18th of March 1946 a Mosquito bomber and 3 Mustang fighters were reported missing while on a ferry flight between Okinawa and Bofu in Japan

Two of the Mustang aircraft - A68-770 flown by Flying Officer Murray Geoffrey Short 47460 and A68-773 flown by Flying Officer Alan George Pilkington 406042 - crashed at sea near Kochi with their bodies recovered and they were buried at Yokohama cemetery

The other airmen were last observed near Cape Tsuru but as their bodies were not recovered they are commemorated on the Labuan Memorial -

Flying Officer John Gibson Allan 407213 in Mustang A69-718

Flying Officer James William Nattrass 442477 and Flight Lieutenant George William Saywell 414962 in Mosquito A52-147

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