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Royal Australian Air Force Rank Sergeant 417171
Posting on Death: 1 Bomb and Gunnery School Evans Head
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Fairy Battle L5650; Place - Evans Head, New South Wales; Date - 7 June 1943.
Collided with Battle L4941 and Crashed Into a Swamp at Evans Head; L4941 Force Landed and the Crew Survived.
The crew of Fairy Battle L5650 were;
FINCH, George William - (Sergeant) - 417171 Pilot
MOONEY Cosmo Louis – (Leading Aircraftman) - 44711 (Drogue Operator)
The crew members of L4941 were:
Flight Sergeant Neville Graham Monroe (404979) (Pilot) Discharged from the RAAF: 27 February 1945.
Leading Aircraftman Collin Henry Wheatley (425913) (Student) Discharged from the RAAF: 25 January 1946.
Leading Aircraftman Noel White (434066) (Student) Discharged from the RAAF: 14 March 1946.
He is commemorated on the community roll of honour in Adelaide Sth Aust, also his name is located at panel 115 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Charles Thomas Finch and Violet Elizabeth Finch, of Brompton, South Australia.
Royal Australian Air Force Rank Sergeant 417171
Posting on Death: 1 Bomb and Gunnery School Evans Head
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Fairy Battle L5650; Place - Evans Head, New South Wales; Date - 7 June 1943.
Collided with Battle L4941 and Crashed Into a Swamp at Evans Head; L4941 Force Landed and the Crew Survived.
The crew of Fairy Battle L5650 were;
FINCH, George William - (Sergeant) - 417171 Pilot
MOONEY Cosmo Louis – (Leading Aircraftman) - 44711 (Drogue Operator)
The crew members of L4941 were:
Flight Sergeant Neville Graham Monroe (404979) (Pilot) Discharged from the RAAF: 27 February 1945.
Leading Aircraftman Collin Henry Wheatley (425913) (Student) Discharged from the RAAF: 25 January 1946.
Leading Aircraftman Noel White (434066) (Student) Discharged from the RAAF: 14 March 1946.
He is commemorated on the community roll of honour in Adelaide Sth Aust, also his name is located at panel 115 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Charles Thomas Finch and Violet Elizabeth Finch, of Brompton, South Australia.
View Memorial site here
Royal Australian Air Force Rank Sergeant 417171
Posting on Death: 1 Bomb and Gunnery School Evans Head
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Fairy Battle L5650; Place - Evans Head, New South Wales; Date - 7 June 1943.
Collided with Battle L4941 and Crashed Into a Swamp at Evans Head; L4941 Force Landed and the Crew Survived.
The crew of Fairy Battle L5650 were;
FINCH, George William - (Sergeant) - 417171 Pilot
MOONEY Cosmo Louis – (Leading Aircraftman) - 44711 (Drogue Operator)
The crew members of L4941 were:
Flight Sergeant Neville Graham Monroe (404979) (Pilot) Discharged from the RAAF: 27 February 1945.
Leading Aircraftman Collin Henry Wheatley (425913) (Student) Discharged from the RAAF: 25 January 1946.
Leading Aircraftman Noel White (434066) (Student) Discharged from the RAAF: 14 March 1946.
He is commemorated on the community roll of honour in Adelaide Sth Aust, also his name is located at panel 115 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Charles Thomas Finch and Violet Elizabeth Finch, of Brompton, South Australia.
Royal Australian Air Force Rank Sergeant 417171
Posting on Death: 1 Bomb and Gunnery School Evans Head
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Fairy Battle L5650; Place - Evans Head, New South Wales; Date - 7 June 1943.
Collided with Battle L4941 and Crashed Into a Swamp at Evans Head; L4941 Force Landed and the Crew Survived.
The crew of Fairy Battle L5650 were;
FINCH, George William - (Sergeant) - 417171 Pilot
MOONEY Cosmo Louis – (Leading Aircraftman) - 44711 (Drogue Operator)
The crew members of L4941 were:
Flight Sergeant Neville Graham Monroe (404979) (Pilot) Discharged from the RAAF: 27 February 1945.
Leading Aircraftman Collin Henry Wheatley (425913) (Student) Discharged from the RAAF: 25 January 1946.
Leading Aircraftman Noel White (434066) (Student) Discharged from the RAAF: 14 March 1946.
He is commemorated on the community roll of honour in Adelaide Sth Aust, also his name is located at panel 115 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Charles Thomas Finch and Violet Elizabeth Finch, of Brompton, South Australia.
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