James Patrick CONWAY

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CONWAY, James Patrick

Service Number:	31428
Enlisted:	22 June 1941
Last Rank:	Squadron Leader
Last Unit:	HQ (RAF) Burma
Born:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 1915
Home Town:	Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Illness, Bengal, India, 26 October 1946
Cemetery:	Ranchi War Cemetery
Memorials:

Peacetime

22 Jun 1941:	Enlisted

World War 2 Service

8 Aug 1945:	Involvement Royal Air Force , Squadron Leader, 31428, HQ (RAF) Burma, Air War SE Asia 1941-45

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

The Age (Melbourne, Victoria) Thursday 31 October 1946 (repeated same day in The Argus)

On Active Service - on October 26 at Kankinara, Bengal, India, Squadron Leader James Patrick Conway (R.A.F.), dearly loved youngest son of John Conway of Geelong and loved brother of Eileen (Mrs Hodgkinson), John, Maurice, and Monica

Squadron Leader James Patrick Conway (Equipment Branch - Mentioned in despatches in June 1942) of 313 Maintenance Unit based at RAF Barrackpore died of an unspecified illness at Kankinara in Bengal, India

NAA file - CONWAY, James Patrick (Squadron Leader) 31428 Place: Barrackpore, Bengal, India 26 October 1946

Son of John Joseph and Mary Catherine Conway of Geelong, Victoria

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