Service Number: 30053
Enlisted: 18 March 1940
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Born: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 9 May 1915
Home Town: Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Carpenter
Died: Flying Battle, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, 22 January 1944, aged 28 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Commemorated: - Panel 259, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial.
Parents: - Walter James Batten and Ada Ethel Cross married 29th March 1912 in Cressy, Tasmania, Australia.
Flight Sergeant Douglas Walter Batten's Squadron 640 was operating from Lissett when his aircraft was lost, he was posted missing on 22nd January 1944. Halifax LW459 is believed to have crashed into the North Sea off Flamborough Head. He was twenty eight years old.
Enlisted: 18 March 1940
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Born: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 9 May 1915
Home Town: Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Carpenter
Died: Flying Battle, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, 22 January 1944, aged 28 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Commemorated: - Panel 259, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial.
Parents: - Walter James Batten and Ada Ethel Cross married 29th March 1912 in Cressy, Tasmania, Australia.
Flight Sergeant Douglas Walter Batten's Squadron 640 was operating from Lissett when his aircraft was lost, he was posted missing on 22nd January 1944. Halifax LW459 is believed to have crashed into the North Sea off Flamborough Head. He was twenty eight years old.
Service Number: 30053
Enlisted: 18 March 1940
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Born: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 9 May 1915
Home Town: Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Carpenter
Died: Flying Battle, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, 22 January 1944, aged 28 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Commemorated: - Panel 259, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial.
Parents: - Walter James Batten and Ada Ethel Cross married 29th March 1912 in Cressy, Tasmania, Australia.
Flight Sergeant Douglas Walter Batten's Squadron 640 was operating from Lissett when his aircraft was lost, he was posted missing on 22nd January 1944. Halifax LW459 is believed to have crashed into the North Sea off Flamborough Head. He was twenty eight years old.
Enlisted: 18 March 1940
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Born: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 9 May 1915
Home Town: Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Carpenter
Died: Flying Battle, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, 22 January 1944, aged 28 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Commemorated: - Panel 259, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial.
Parents: - Walter James Batten and Ada Ethel Cross married 29th March 1912 in Cressy, Tasmania, Australia.
Flight Sergeant Douglas Walter Batten's Squadron 640 was operating from Lissett when his aircraft was lost, he was posted missing on 22nd January 1944. Halifax LW459 is believed to have crashed into the North Sea off Flamborough Head. He was twenty eight years old.
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Royal Australian Air Force
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30053
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Records on Ancestry
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Web: UK and Allied Countries, Index of International Bomber Command Losses, 1936-1966
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UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947
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Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
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UK, World War I and World War II Shipping and Seamen Rolls of Honour, 1914-1945
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