Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

He was 24 and the son of Edward Wellington and Isa Tweedale, of Clayfield, Queensland, Australia.

I just want to add some background on the photos and other items involving Gordon Tweedale that I'm uploading.

My father (FLt Alan Ewing Thomson 404267) knew Gordon Tweedale in Brisbane in the mid/later 1930s. He and my father appear to have enisted at about the same time, and they attended No 6 EFTS at Tamworth together in 1940-41. My father contracted mumps in early 1941, which meant that he ended up completing his flying training at a later stage, and wasn't sent to Europe as were many of the others from his course at Tamworth.

The photos of Gordon Tweedale that I'm uploading are from one of my father's WW2 albums covering his time at No 6 EFTS Tamworth (September 1940-January 1941). Unfortunately, the image quality isn't very good. The two official condolence letters [copies] addressed to Tweedale's mother that I'm uploading are from a bundle of miscellaneous items in my father's collection. I have no idea how these letters ended up in my father's collection. My guess is Tweedale's mother might have given them to my father at some point. The poem appears to have been written by Tweedale, and my guess is it's in his hand. It's written in lead pencil and is very faint. I have no idea when the poem was written. I found it several years ago, folded up in my father's copy of 'Spitfires Over Malta'. The note on the second page of the poem ‘Twid Gordon Tweedale DFM Malta’ appears to have been written by my father, possibly added in the 1980s or 1990s…