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WEBSTER, Alan Robert
Personal Details
Service Number: | 409630 |
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Enlisted: | 12 September 1941 |
Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
Last Unit: | No. 30 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia , 11 January 1923 |
Home Town: | Wangaratta, Wangaratta, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Flying Battle, Cape Simork, Dutch New Guinea, Dutch New Guinea, Netherlands East Indies, 11 August 1944, aged 21 years |
Cemetery: |
Lae War Cemetery Plot FF, Row B, Grave 16 Roll of Honour - Wangaratta, Lae War Cemetery, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Wangaratta High School War Memorial Gates, Wangaratta Holy Trinity Cathedral Honour Roll WW2, Wangaratta War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flying Officer, 409630 | |
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12 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 409630, Enlisted at Melbourne | |
12 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 409630, No. 30 Squadron (RAAF) |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Plane was Beaufighter A19 - 194
Biography contributed by David Barlow
Flying Officer Alan Robert Webster 409630 from Number 30 Squadron was killed when Beaufighter A19-194 was hit by AA fire at Cape Simork, Dutch New Guinea while on a bombing mission - the pilot was Flight Lieutenant Spence 407595 who survived and was discharged from the RAAF in 1945