Frederick Stanley HODGE DFM

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HODGE, Frederick Stanley

Service Number:	426100
Enlisted:	23 May 1942
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer
Last Unit:	No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 April 1923
Home Town:	Childers, Bundaberg, Queensland
Schooling:	Isis North State School and Childers State School, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Apprentice Fitter and Turner
Died:	Natural causes, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 5 September 2007, aged 84 years
Cemetery:	Bundaberg Crematorium & Memorial Park
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

23 May 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 426100, Brisbane, Queensland
23 May 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 426100
9 Apr 1944:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 426100, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
28 Nov 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 426100

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Death notice from the Bundaberg News Mail - HODGE, Stanley Frederick - late of Riverlea, formerly of Argyle Village died age 84 on the 5th of September 2007

Lancaster ME663 of 460 Squadron RAAF based at RAF Binbrook was shot down by a German night-fighter / anti-aircraft fire after a mission to lay mines in the Baltic and crashed near the town of Aale in Denmark

Flight Sergeant Frederick Stanley Hodge DFM 426100 was taken Prisoner and survived the war

Flying Officer Charles Edward Suffren DFC 409280 survived but with severe injuries; he passed away in a Luftwaffe Military hospital in Germany 10 months after the crash and is buried in Durnbach Cemetery in Germany (he is referred to in Volume 9 of “Bomber Command Losses” by Chorley)

The 5 crewmen that were killed in the crash are buried in Esbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery in Denmark

CHAPMAN, Leslie Harold (Flight Sergeant) 410641

CROSBY, Peter Alan (Flight Lieutenant) DFC 416656

BILLETT, Clive (Flight Sergeant) 414191

ROBB, Laurence William (Flying Officer) 418879

BENDER, Milton Harold (Pilot Officer) DFC 173405 RAF

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