Harold Oscar WALTON

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WALTON, Harold Oscar

Service Number:	408894
Enlisted:	20 June 1941
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Daylesford, Victoria, Australia, 13 July 1920
Home Town:	Daylesford, Hepburn, Victoria
Schooling:	Malvern Church of England Grammar School, East Malvern, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Bank Clerk, Commercial Bank Co., of Sydney
Died:	Flying Battle, Northern Territory, Australia, 5 February 1943, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Adelaide River War Cemetery, NT R.C.8., Adelaide River War Cemetery, Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Commercial Banking Company of Sydney WW2 Honour Roll, Daylesford War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, 408894
20 Jun 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), Aircrew Training Units
20 Jun 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 408894
5 Feb 1943:	Involvement Sergeant, No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron (RAAF)

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of George Harold and Grace Victoria Walton of Daylesford, Victoria

Three members of the RAAF were killed when Mitchell B25 Bomber N5-132 of Number 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron crashed after take-off on an early morning mission 3 miles NW of MacDonald Strip, NT (details from the book “Up in Darwin with the Dutch” by Gordon Wallace)

Sergeant David Leslie MacPherson 408910

Sergeant Harold Oscar Walton 408894 (passed away from his injuries at 119AGH just after midnight)

LAC Max Temby Palamountain 39854

Rest of the crew were Dutch military personnel, all killed: SCHALK, L (Sergeant Major) 34-KUM / HIELE, C (Sergeant) 95845 / JANSSEN, J J (Sergeant) 92766 / MAARSCHALKEWEERD, A (Sergeant) 94733 / ABELEVEN, G F (Sergeant) 94685 / KESSELS, NW (Sergeant Major) 92875

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