Virtual War Memorial | John Edwin Ashley (Willy) WILLIAMS DFC

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WILLIAMS, John Edwin Ashley

Service Number:	40652
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Squadron Leader
Last Unit:	No. 450 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Wellington, New Zealand, 6 May 1919
Home Town:	Manly, Manly Vale, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Executed (recaptured POW of Germany), Żagań, Poland, 29 March 1944, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

29 Mar 1944:	Involvement Royal Air Force , Squadron Leader, 40652, No. 450 Squadron (RAAF), Prisoners of War

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