Flight Sergeant, 406129. Royal Australian Air Force. Age 28. Son of Jacob and Edith Miriam Hawter, of Mullalyup, Western Australia. Sec. W. Coll. grave 17527/9.
Flying with the USAAF 90th Bomber Squadron, Hawter was killed in a plane crash during WWII, on the South Pacific island of British New Guinea.
The other two names on the marker are Vicksburg natives who also were in the plane crash. The area of the crash was in Japanese hands and the plane's wreckage was not found until the following year when Allied forces moved in.
When the wreckage was found, the remains of three men were inside, identified by dog tags. They were buried in the American Cemetery at Finschaffen (former war cemetery on the north coast of New Guinea.) For a reason not identified, his remains were brought to the U.S. in Dec. 1949, along with the two Vicksburg natives, and interred at Vicksburg National Cemetery.
In 1949, it was the policy of the Australian government to allow its servicemen's remains to stay where they are buried unless the family asks they be repatriated.
Flying with the USAAF 90th Bomber Squadron, Hawter was killed in a plane crash during WWII, on the South Pacific island of British New Guinea.
The other two names on the marker are Vicksburg natives who also were in the plane crash. The area of the crash was in Japanese hands and the plane's wreckage was not found until the following year when Allied forces moved in.
When the wreckage was found, the remains of three men were inside, identified by dog tags. They were buried in the American Cemetery at Finschaffen (former war cemetery on the north coast of New Guinea.) For a reason not identified, his remains were brought to the U.S. in Dec. 1949, along with the two Vicksburg natives, and interred at Vicksburg National Cemetery.
In 1949, it was the policy of the Australian government to allow its servicemen's remains to stay where they are buried unless the family asks they be repatriated.
Flight Sergeant, 406129. Royal Australian Air Force. Age 28. Son of Jacob and Edith Miriam Hawter, of Mullalyup, Western Australia. Sec. W. Coll. grave 17527/9.
Flying with the USAAF 90th Bomber Squadron, Hawter was killed in a plane crash during WWII, on the South Pacific island of British New Guinea.
The other two names on the marker are Vicksburg natives who also were in the plane crash. The area of the crash was in Japanese hands and the plane's wreckage was not found until the following year when Allied forces moved in.
When the wreckage was found, the remains of three men were inside, identified by dog tags. They were buried in the American Cemetery at Finschaffen (former war cemetery on the north coast of New Guinea.) For a reason not identified, his remains were brought to the U.S. in Dec. 1949, along with the two Vicksburg natives, and interred at Vicksburg National Cemetery.
In 1949, it was the policy of the Australian government to allow its servicemen's remains to stay where they are buried unless the family asks they be repatriated.
Flying with the USAAF 90th Bomber Squadron, Hawter was killed in a plane crash during WWII, on the South Pacific island of British New Guinea.
The other two names on the marker are Vicksburg natives who also were in the plane crash. The area of the crash was in Japanese hands and the plane's wreckage was not found until the following year when Allied forces moved in.
When the wreckage was found, the remains of three men were inside, identified by dog tags. They were buried in the American Cemetery at Finschaffen (former war cemetery on the north coast of New Guinea.) For a reason not identified, his remains were brought to the U.S. in Dec. 1949, along with the two Vicksburg natives, and interred at Vicksburg National Cemetery.
In 1949, it was the policy of the Australian government to allow its servicemen's remains to stay where they are buried unless the family asks they be repatriated.
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