Gordon Murray WALKER

WALKER, Gordon Murray

Service Number: 418610
Enlisted: 23 May 1942
Last Rank: Flying Officer
Last Unit: No. 148 Squadron (RAF)
Born: Mildura, Victoria, Australia , 11 April 1923
Home Town: Sandringham, Victoria
Schooling: Mildura State School and Melbourne High School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Laboratory assistant
Died: Flying Battle, Yugoslavia, 4 January 1945, aged 21 years
Cemetery: Belgrade War Cemetery, Serbia
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Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

23 May 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 418610, Melbourne, Victoria
23 May 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 418610, No. 148 Squadron (RAF)
4 Jan 1945: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 418610, No. 148 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

"Mr and Mrs W. Walker, of 8 Abbott st, Sandringham, have been advised that their son, Pilot-Officer Gordon Murray Walker, is missing, belíeved to have been killed, in air operations over Yugoslavia on January 4. Pilot Officer Walker was born in Mildura, and educated at Mildura and Melbourne High Schools. Before enlisting, he was in the laboratory at the munition works, Maribyrnong." - from the Melbourne Argus 03 Mar 1945 (nla.gov.au)

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