Maxwell Albert TAIT

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TAIT, Maxwell Albert

Service Number:	413802
Enlisted:	13 September 1941, Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Pilot Officer
Last Unit:	No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head
Born:	Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 27 June 1922
Home Town:	Pennant Hills, Hornsby Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Watchmaker
Died:	Accidental (Flying Accident), Evans Head, New South Wales, Australia, 14 February 1943, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Evans Head War Cemetery, NSW Plot B Row D Grave 9
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Pilot Officer, 413802
13 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 413802, No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head, Sydney, NSW

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Percy Oliver and Gladys Louisa Tait, of Pennant Hills.

PLANE DIVES INTO
GROUND
SYDNEY, Tuesday.
Two airmen, Pilot-Officer Maxwell Albert Tait, of Pennant Hills (N.S.W.), pilot, and L.A.C. Neil James Herbert Campbell, of Mt. Molloy (Qld.), operator, were killed when their aircraft dived into the ground during gunnery exercises at an R.A.A.F. training station in north eastern New South Wales on Sunday.

Biography contributed by David Barlow

Fairey Battle V1232 from Number 1 Bomb & Gunnery School crashed at Evans Head killing Pilot Officer Tait 413802 and LAC Campbell 414897

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