Denis Jack (Jack) UNKLES

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UNKLES, Denis Jack

Service Number:	408766
Enlisted:	23 May 1941
Last Rank:	Flight Lieutenant
Last Unit:	No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps
Born:	Sale, Victoria, Australia, 23 November 1915
Home Town:	Sale, Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling:	St. Patricks College, Sale, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Property Manager
Died:	Air operations, Papua New Guinea, 15 April 1944, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery NN C 13
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sale Cenotaph, Stratford War Memorial

World War 2 Service

23 May 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 408766, No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, Melbourne
23 May 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 408766, No. 4 Squadron (RAAF)

World War 1 Service

15 Apr 1944:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 408766, No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Denis Jack UNKLES was born in Sale, Victoria on 23rd November, 1915

His parents were William Charles UNKLES & Katherine DOYLE

He married Sheila Florence KEANE on 22nd February, 1941 in St Marys and the Angels Church in Geelong, Victoria

He had previously served with the 13th Light Horse Reconnaissance Unit in Sale and left to join the RAAF - he enlisted in Melbourne on 23rd May 1941 with the Royal Australian Air Force - his last rank was Flight Lieutenant with the 4 Squadron

Denis & observer Lieut John Rawden FEATHERSTONEHAUGH took off from the Gusap airstrip on April, 15, 1944 in a Wirraway aircraft for a reconnaissance flight over the Wantoak area - they crashed near Gasmata & never returned - the wreckage was discovered late in 1998 & they were buried in the Lae War Cemetery on 13th January, 1999 with full military honours

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