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WEBSTER, Alan Robert
Step 1: 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 Chisholm Street School No 643 Roll of Honour, Wangaratta High School War Memorial Gates, Wangaratta Holy Trinity Cathedral Honour Roll WW2, Wangaratta War Memorial |
Biography 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