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SWINSON, Ronald Ross
Service Number: | 414966 |
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Enlisted: | 6 December 1941 |
Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
Last Unit: | No. 10 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Brentwood, London, England, United Kingdom, 7 March 1913 |
Home Town: | Ivanhoe, Banyule, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Shift Engineer |
Died: | Flying Battle, United Kingdom, 18 August 1943, aged 30 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Misima Island PNG - Roll of Honour, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, United Kingdom |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flying Officer, 414966, No. 10 Squadron (RAAF) | |
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6 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 414966 | |
6 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 414966, No. 10 Squadron (RAAF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Rodney Watton
Service: Royal Australian Air Force
Service Number: 414966
Enlisted: 6 December 1941, Brisbane, Queensland
Last Rank: Flight Officer
Last Unit: No. 10 Squadron (RAAF)
Home Town: Ivanhoe, Banyule, Victoria
Occupation: Carpenter / Shift Engineer at Cuthberts Gold Mines, Misima Island PNG
Died: Killed in Action (flying battle), Bay of Biscay, 18 August 1943, aged 30 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:
- Runnymede (Air Forces) Memorial, Surrey, England;
- Air Forces Memorial (Runnymede Memorial), Australian War Memorial, Roll of Honour; and
- Misima Island PNG - Roll of Honour.
Personal Details
Birth:
Born 7 March 1913 in Brentwood, London, England, United Kingdom - (Source : English Birth Records January, February, March 1913 - District :Brentwood, Vol 3a page 336.)
Father: Walter Charles SWINSON of 42 Leslie Street, Bardon, Qld
Mother: Emily Rose SWINSON
Siblings:
Brother: - Geoffrey Wilfred SWINSON (Born 10 August 1908 in Halifax, England) - Serviced with the RAAF, service number 22843
Brother: - Cecil Charles SWINSON (Born 21 November 1923 in Todmorden, England) - served with the Australian Army, service number Q145766
Wife: Elizabeth SWINSON (nee White Shaw)
Engagement announced on Saturday 27 November 1937, Brisbane Courier Mail, page 28
Married on 9 April 1938 registration number 08185
Children:
Judith Ann SWINSON - Born 18 February 1939
Grandchildren: Unknown
Peter Ross SWINSON - Born 27 September 1942
Grandchildren: Ronald, Richard, Rodney, Tracy, Teena, Shane, Scott
Last lived:
13 Rockbeare Grove Ivanhoe, Banyule, Victoria on enlisting.
Enlistment and Service
Description: 28yrs old; married with one child; 5' 9.5" tall; 129 lbs;dark complexion; brown eyes; dark brown hair; Church of England
6/12/1941: Enlisted with RAAF at No3 Recruitment Centre, Brisbane, Queensland
6/12/1941: Appointed to No3 International Training School, Essendon, Victoria
16/2/1942: Appointed to No.5 Elementary Flying Training School, Narromine, New South Wales
29/07/1942: Embarked Melbourne, Australia for Calvary, Canada
12/09/1942:Appointed to No3 Service Flight Training School, Calvary, Canada
30/12/1942: Awarded "Flying Badge" - Successfully by RCAF
30/12/1942: Commissioned as a Pilot Officer, Gazette Number 66/43
17/01/1943: Appointed to No1 General Reconnaissance School, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
3/04/1943: Embarked Halifax, Canada for deployment in England
19/05/1943: Stationed at RAF, Mount Batten, Plymouth, England
30/06/1943: Promoted to Flying Officer, Gazette Number 258/43
1/08/1943: Ceased attachment to the RAF and posted from RAF Station Mount Batten to No.10 Squadron RAAF (overseas).
Flying Officer 10 Squadron
Sunderland II - 10 (RAAF) Squadron - W3985/T - lost over Biscay Bay.
409027 F/O Victor Denis William COLLINS - RP187 - Pilot
407977 F/Lt Hickson William SKINNER - RP187 - Pilot
414966 F/O Ronald Ross SWINSON - RP190 - Pilot
401820 F/O William Noel HILL - RP188 - Nav
414990 F/Sgt Hugh Edward BURBIDGE - RP192 - Ag
402704 F/Sgt Ronald Arthur GIBBS - RP192 - WOp/Ag
404754 F/Sgt Kenneth Morwick MELDRUM - RP193 - WOp/Ag
5226 Sgt Alfred Ramsay ALDRIDGE - RP195 - Fitter 2A
19707 Sgt Walter Paul GREATZ - RP195 - Fitter 2E
51797 Sgt Norman Henry ORFORD - RP197 - Armourer
19194 Sgt Walter SLATER - RP197 - flt engineer
655726 F/Sgt Donald Stanyon CROXFORD - RAF(VR) - RP136 -passenger.
18/8/1943: Presumed killed in action, whilst flying overseas - off coast of UK
Cemetery and Memorials
- No known grave
- His name is commemorated on Panel 190, Memorial ID 15264410, at the Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede, Surrey, England.
- His name is commemorated on Panel 100 at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT
- His name is commemorated Misima Island, Papua New Guinea - Roll of Honour