WALL, Peter James
| Service Number: | 29351 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 November 1940, Perth, WA |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Chelmsford, England, 10 December 1912 |
| Home Town: | Subiaco, Nedlands, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Motor Mechanic and Bricklayer |
| Died: | Ground Accident, Pearce, Western Australia, Pearce, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 18 July 1946, aged 33 years |
| Cemetery: |
Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia MB1, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Corporal, 29351 | |
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| 27 Nov 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 29351, Perth, WA |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Two RAAF vehicles collided near Pearce airbase with four airmen killed:
Corporal Peter James Wall 29351
Corporal Charles Whitley Chester 3093
LAC Ross Allan Powell 81826
Flight Sergeant Raymond Thomas Tapping 29489
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of George Edwin and Mary Florence Wall; husband of Gwendolyne Maud Wall, of 8 Florence Street, West Perth.
Four Airmen Killed
When
Trucks Crash
SIX OTHERS INJURED
PERTH, Friday.
Four members of the RAAF were killed and six members of the RAAF were injured late yesterday when two RAAF trucks crashed together, three miles south of Pearce aerodrome. All were on their way to rehabilitation lectures at a technical college.
Those killed were:—
Cpl Fitter Peter James Wall, Midland Junction.
Cpl Charles Whitely Chester, of North Perth.
LAC Ross Alan Powell, of Bridgetown;
and Flt/Sgt. Raymond Thomas Tapping, of Guildford.
With a load of 13 men and a member of the WAAAF, a 30-cwt tender left Pearcc for Perth, and 10 minutes later the accident happened on a stretch of road which gives visibility in either direction for several hundred yards. The collision was not quite head-on. The wagon crashed into the off-side of the tender, ripping away the body as they ground together. The tender's side was sheared off. It is thought those killed were sitting where they would receive the full force of the impact.
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