Eric Douglas WILLIAMS

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Service Number:	402687
Enlisted:	18 September 1940, Sydney, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Glenbrook, New South Wales, 5 September 1917
Home Town:	Glenbrook, Blue Mountains Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Glenbrook Public School, Parramatta High School
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Flying Battle, Germany, 26 June 1942, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Hamburg Cemetery, Germany Plot 4A, Row H, Grave 13, Hamburg Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

18 Sep 1940:	Involvement Sergeant, 402687
18 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 402687, Sydney, New South Wales
23 Jan 1941:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 402687, Embarked at Sydney for Canada and UK

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School Subjects studied, Maths 1 & 2, Science, History, English but failed French and Latin

Sports played - Tennis, Cricket, Golf, Football (school only) and Skiff Sailing. He was a memer of the Middle Harbour Sailing Clug Club

Hobbies - Driving cars, Sailing and sports

After leaving school in 1934 he was employed by the Royal Exchange Assurance

18 September 1940 - commenced initial traning at Lindfield

Plane was Whitley V.P 4944 and crashed near Emen, Germany while on operations to Bremen, Germany