Neville Thomas SELF

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SELF, Neville Thomas

Service Number:	433627
Enlisted:	24 April 1943, Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 7 July 1924
Home Town:	Paddington, Woollahra, New South Wales
Schooling:	Christian Brothers' College Waverley
Occupation:	Junior Clerk & Accountancy student
Died:	Flying Accident, Maclean, New South Wales, Australia, 7 March 1944, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Evans Head War Cemetery, NSW Plot B Row D Grave 7
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement 433627
24 Apr 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 433627, No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head, Sydney, NSW

Biography contributed

Son of Athol John Thomas SELF & Ursula Muriel SHEILS

5 AIRMEN KILLED
IN ACCIDENT
SYDNEY, — Five RAAF airmen were killed in an aircraft accident during- training exercises at an RAAF station in northern New South Wales.
They were: Flying Officer Billle Strike McClelland, pilot, of Croydon (Sydney) ; Flight Sergt; Bruce Allan Duckworth, wireless air-gunner of Ararat (V.); LAO Robert Thomas Robertson, trainee navigator, of Enfield (N.S.W.): LAC Patrick John Scanlon, trainee navigator, of Norwood (Brisbane); and LAC Neville Thomas Self tainee navigator, of Paddington Sydney.

Biography contributed by David Barlow

Avro Anson AW485 from Number 1 Air Observers School crashed near Maclean in NSW killing Flying Officer Strike-McClelland 412748 / Flight Sergeant Duckworth 409394 / LAC Robertson 439616 / LAC Scanlan 435197 / LAC Self 433627

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