John Hugho WEIR

WEIR, John Hugho

Service Number: NX333
Enlisted: 3 January 1940
Last Rank: Captain
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Pyramid Hill, Victoria, Australia, 20 May 1912
Home Town: Mildura, Mildura Shire, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Aircraft accident), Canal Creek via Yaamba, Queensland, Australia, 19 December 1943, aged 31 years
Cemetery: North Rockhampton Cemetery, Qld
Plot A Row B Grave 8, Rockhampton War Cemetery, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Canal Creek War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Captain, NX333
3 Jan 1940: Enlisted NX333

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

USAAF Dakota C-47 #43-30742 (VH-CHR) of the 22nd Troop Carrier Squadron of the 374th Troop Carrier Group disintegrated in the air about 30 miles north of Rockhampton killing all 31 personnel on board. The loss of this aircraft is still the second worst Air Disaster in Australian Aviation history.

On board were 20 American Service personnel, an Australian War Correspondent (Harold George Dick), a Salvation Army Officer (Chaplain William Bramwell Tibbs BEM), Representative MacDonald of the YMCA, two members of the RAAF (LAC Cameron 426040 & LAC Oster 115325) & 6 Australian Army soldiers:

Corporal Sleep NX150010

Corporal Shard Q148539

Private Rasmussen Q271392

Captain Weir NX333

Captain Geddes SX4886

Captain Mollison VX912

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