Geoffrey Paul WITTS

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WITTS, Geoffrey Paul

Service Number:	424252
Enlisted:	15 August 1942
Last Rank:	Pilot Officer
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 1 September 1923
Home Town:	Penrith, Penrith Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Ground Accident, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia, , 26 August 1945, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Penrith General Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia RC Plot Row M Grave 25
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Pilot Officer, 424252
15 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 424252
15 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 424252
15 Jun 1943:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, 424252, Embarked at Brisbane Disembarked UK 31/07/1943
25 Feb 1945:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, 424252, Embarked Middle East for UK
26 Aug 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, 424252, Killed in motor vehicle accident Penrith
Date unknown:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 424252

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Pilot Officer Witts 424252 was killed in a Motor Vehicle Accident at Penrith, NSW having just returned from operations in the Middle East and Mediterranean with Number 459 Squadron RAAF

At the time of his death he was attached to RAAF Number 2 Personnel Depot (Demobilisation Wing) based at Sydney Showground (Moore Park) this was the holding unit for personnel coming back from overseas duty prior to their discharge.

He does not appear on the 459SQN Roll of Honour in their history book "Desert Scorpions - a history of 459 Squadron RAAF 1942-1945" by Leon Kane-Maguire

There is a photo of then Flight Sergeant Witts in the book, standing near his Ventura aircraft with crewmates. After conversion to the newer Baltimore aircraft his crew took part in the raid on the Melos coastal guns at the end of October 1944 and the bombing raid on Angonia encampment shortly afterwards.

His brother, LAC John Witts 411569, died during the war in a training aircraft accident in Canada

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