Stanley Ernest WOODCROFT

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WOODCROFT, Stanley Ernest

Service Number:	22630
Enlisted:	10 June 1940, Enlisted at Brisbane
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 23 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 16 May 1918
Home Town:	Corinda, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Insurance clerk
Died:	Flying Battle, New Britain, Pacific Islands, New Guinea, 21 January 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea Panel 36
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane State High School Honour Board, Rabaul Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, 22630
10 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 22630, Enlisted at Brisbane
20 Jan 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, No. 23 Squadron (RAAF), Battle of Rabaul

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Ernest Tillotson Woodcroft and Elsie Anna Woodcroft; husband of Vida May Woodcroft of Sydney NSW. Vida and Stanley were married on the 21 April 1941 in the Presbyterian Church, Brisbane

Plane was a Wirraway

Medals: 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal

Biography contributed by David Barlow

Sergeant Stanley Ernest Woodcroft 22630 and Sergeant Robert Alfred Blackman 402844 were killed when Wirraway A20-319 was shot down into the sea by Japanese Zero aircraft near Rabaul, New Guinea - they are commemorated on the Rabaul Memorial as their bodies were not recovered.

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