Douglas Highmoor FORDER

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FORDER, Douglas Highmoor

Service Number:	282522
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Squadron Leader
Last Unit:	Air Force Headquarters Western Area (Perth)
Born:	Caltowie, 9 September 1912
Home Town:	Plympton, City of West Torrens, South Australia
Schooling:	Riverton High School, Adelaide High School, Adelaide University
Occupation:	Meteorologist
Memorials:	Riverton & District High School Roll of Honor WW2, Riverton Holy Trinity Anglican Church Honour Roll WW2

World War 2 Service

21 Dec 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 282522, Air Force Headquarters Western Area (Perth)
21 Dec 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 282522
Date unknown:	Involvement
Date unknown:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 282522

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Biography contributed

From Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation https://www.eoas.info/index.html

Forder, Douglas Highmoor (Doug) (1912 - 1979)
Born: 9 September 1912
Caltowie, South Australia, Australia
Died: November 1979
Occupation: Educator

Summary
Doug Forder spent much of his war service teaching meteorology as Chief Instructor at the RAAF Meteorological Training School in Melbourne. His keen interest in his trainees and commonsense approach to teaching started many a forecaster on a career in meteorology. All of his trainees thought highly of him as a dedicated teacher of a subject he had taken up only during the war. (Weather News, No. 248 March 1980 #3121.)

Born 9 September 1912. Died November 1979. Educated BA, BSc, Adelaide University. Teacher 1934. Squadron Leader and Chief Instructor in Meteorology, RAAF, 1940-1945. Headmaster of Waikerie, Clare and Port Lincoln High Schools and Whyalla Technical High School, 1948-1960. Headmaster, Westminster School, South Australia, 1960-1976. Retired 1976. His Analysis and forecasting in the south-west Pacific area (lecture notes for short period conversion courses) was published by the Bureau of Meteorology in 1946.

Resources
'Forder, Douglas Highmoor (1912-1979)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476012. Details
See also
Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/index_f.html. Details
Helen Morgan

Created: 10 May 2001, Last modified: 9 March 2018

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