John Aloysius SIEBERT DFC

SIEBERT, John Aloysius

Service Number: 36155
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Last Unit: No. 207 Squadron (RAF)
Born: Adelaide, South Australia, 7 July 1917
Home Town: Kingswood, South Australia
Schooling: Christian Brothers and Rostrevor Colleges, South Australia
Occupation: Permanent Air Force
Died: Air operations, Bakel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands, 28 March 1941, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery, Netherlands
FF Grave 4
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Rostrevor College WW2 Memorial Plaques
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World War 2 Service

28 Mar 1941: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 36155, No. 207 Squadron (RAF)

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Francis Joseph and Ella Mary (nee Teague) Siebert, of Kingswood, South Australia.

ETERNAL REST GRANT UNTO HIM, O LORD; AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM

Mr. F. J. Siebert, of Seafield avenue, Kingswood, has received private advice that his son Flight-Lieut. J.A. Flight-Lieut. Siebert. DF.C. has been killed  as the result of air operations. Flight-Lieut. Siebert was previously reported "missing, believed killed." The communication received by Mr. Siebert states that the crew of his son's plane are unwounded prisoners in Germany. Flight-Lieut. Siebert was awarded the D.F.C. last November. He was  educated at Christian Brothers' College and Rostrevor, where he was a prefect and stroke of the college eight. He joined the R.A.F. in 1937, and entered the R.A.F. training station at Uxbridge, England, in August 1938. He was promoted to the rank of acting flight-lieutenant last year. He took  part in a number of raids over Germany while attached to a bomber squadron.

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