Arthur Robert RUGE

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Service Number:	405424
Enlisted:	29 March 1941, Brisbane, Qld.
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 2 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 3 Air Observers School Port Pirie
Born:	Proserpine, Queensland, Australia, 5 October 1918
Home Town:	Proserpine, Whitsunday, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bank Clerk
Died:	Accidental, Lake Victoria, New South Wales, Australia, 23 June 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Proserpine Cenotaph, Proserpine War Memorial, Sydney Memorial (Sydney War Cemetery) Rookwood

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, 405424
29 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 405424, No. 2 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 3 Air Observers School Port Pirie, Brisbane, Qld.

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Son of Robert Jacob RUGE and Jane nee DOBE, of Proserpine, Queensland.

Posted to RAAF 453 Squadron in Sembawang Airbase in Singapore, withdrawn to Java & then home as the Japanese invaded Singapore.

During a night training flight, the Wirraway was seen to go into a Flick Stall & Spin into the lake. The wreck has never been recovered.

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