Jack STORER

STORER, Jack

Service Number: 405221
Enlisted: 3 February 1941
Last Rank: Warrant Officer
Last Unit: No. 43 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Manypeaks, Queensland, Australia, 23 December 1914
Home Town: Maryborough, Fraser Coast, Queensland
Schooling: Christian Brothers School Maryborough, Queensland, Australia
Occupation: Clerk in State Land & Income Tax Office
Died: Air Operations, Buru, Maluku, Indonesia, 20 July 1944, aged 29 years
Cemetery: Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia
Coll. Grave 3. B. 10.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Maryborough Queen's Park War Memorial, Maryborough St Mary's College War Memorial, Maryborough WW2 RAAF Enlistment Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Warrant Officer, 405221
3 Feb 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 405221, No. 43 Squadron (RAAF)

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of John and Ethel Dulcemore Storer, of Albert Street, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia.

On 20 July 1944, whilst participating in Operational Flights from No. 43 SQN, Darwin, to the South West Pacific area, the ex-member went missing over the Banda Sea near Namlea.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Storer, Albert Street, Maryborough, have been officially advised by the Department of Air that the death of their son, Warrant Officer Jack Storer, R.A.A.F., has been presumed for official purposes to have occured on July 20, 1944, in air operations in the South-west Pacific Islands.

Warrant Officer Storer was attached to the Taxation Department Brisbane, when he enlisted.  His younger brother - the youngest son of the family - Flight Sergeant Kevin Storer, also of the R.A.A.F. was killed in England on May 10 of the same year.  Kevin was on the teaching staff of the Education Department when he enlisted and was stationed at The Ringtail School in the Gypmie District.

 

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