Neville Martin TYACK

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TYACK, Neville Martin

Service Number:	431342
Enlisted:	18 June 1943, Melbourne, Vic.
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Operational Training Units (RAAF)
Born:	Brighton, Victoria, Australia, 27 April 1925
Home Town:	Caulfield, Glen Eira, Victoria
Schooling:	Gardenvale Central School, Wesley College Melbourne
Occupation:	Bank Clerk - Union Bank
Died:	Accidental (Flying Accident), Evans Head, New South Wales, Australia, 10 November 1944, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Evans Head War Cemetery, NSW Plot B Row B Grave 4
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Melbourne Union Bank of Australia Limited 'In Memoriam' WW2 Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, 431342
18 Jun 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 431342, Operational Training Units (RAAF), Melbourne, Vic.

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Beaufighter A19-194 and A19-36 from Number 5 Operational Training Unit (5OTU) were involved in a mid-air collision over the ocean off Evans Head, NSW

Flying Officer Parker 29099 and Sergeant Tyack 431342 were killed in A19-36

Flight Lieutenant Hodges 267209 and Flight Lieutenant Young DFC 406671 (body not recovered, commemorated on Panel 5 of the Sydney Memorial) were killed in A19-194

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Ernest James Victor and Maude Mary Tyack, of Caulfield, Victoria.

He enjoyed swimming, football, cricket, tennis and athletics.

FLIERS KILLED
IN HEAD-ON
CRASH AT SEA
Four air men were killed when two RAAF aircraft collided during low-level training and crashed into the sea in northern NSW.
They were Flying-Officer Norman Lewis Parker, pilot, of Geraldton (WA) ; Sergeant Neville Martin Tyack, navigator, of Caulfield (Vic.); Flight-Lieut. Arthur Curlewls H. Young, pilot, of Newcastle; Flight- Lieut. Arthur George Hodges, navigator, of Casino.
The bodies have been recovered.

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