Cenotaph here
ervice Number: 27521
Enlisted: 20 August 1940
Last Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit: RAAF Station Darwin
Born: Kooringa, South Australia, 26 March 1918
Home Town: Croydon, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Electric Supply Co.
Died: Prisoner of War - Executed by the Japanese, Laha, Ambon Island, Netherlands East Indies, 20 February 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Ambon Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Burra High School Avenue of Memory, Burra WW1 & WW2 War Memorial
Following the Japanese invasion of Ambon Island a group of RAAF personnel working in support of Gull Force were captured trying to escape to Ceram. They were executed by the Japanese at Laha between the 6th and 20th of February 1942
Post-war their bodies were located in a mass grave; four individuals were positively identified and are buried in Ambon War Cemetery with the remaining seven commemorated on the Ambon Memorial to the missing
Positively identified; buried in Ambon War Cemetery with official date of death 6 of February 1942
Wing Commander Scott 250101
Flying Officer Verey 261029
Corporal Gaskin 16645
Aircraftman Evans 37304
Group burial; commemorated on the Ambon Memorial with official date of death 20 February 1942
Squadron Leader Anderson 253
Flight Lieutenant White 260624
Leading Aircraftman Walker 27521
Sergeant Read 406222
Aircraftman Harris 24987
Flight Sergeant Baker 402700
Flying Officer Meyer 290745
Service No: 27521
Born: Kooringa SA, 26 March 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 August 1940
Unit: Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin
Died: Prisoner of War (Executed), Netherlands East Indies, 20 February 1942, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Oswald Gilbert and May Walker, of Burra, South Australia.
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Column 10, Ambon Memorial, Indonesia
Remembered: Panel 97, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
On the evening of the 30th January 1942 two Hudsons remained at Ambon, detained by Wing Commander Ernest Dallas Scott (250101) so that he would have "last minute" reconnaissance reports of the enemy invasion force, but the time had come for the last act of evacuation, and the Hudsons were being refuelled for the flight to Darwin. The pilots, Flying Officer Jack Haythorn (260722) and Flying Officer William Vyner Duckett White (260624) were discussing the loading when a stream of petrol was seen coming from the main fuel line of White's aircraft; the line had been shattered by an enemy bullet and the fuel was running from the tank side of the main fuel cock, which meant that all tanks would be drained. Twenty-eight officers and other ranks were waiting on the airfield to fly to Darwin. Scott revised his plans and ordered 17 of them on boar d the serviceable Hudson. That left eight besides the pilot, co-pilot—Flying Officer Francis Norman Meyer (290745) —and himself. Haythorn took his aircraft off about midnight and Scott's party went to work on the damaged aircraft. The task was beyond them with the equipment they had. Scott, who earlier had been in telephone communication with Halong while Flight Lieutenant Hampshire's (1) (No. 11 Squadron) flying-boat was embarking the last of the staff there, had told him to take off and said that he and the remainder of the Laha party would fly out in White's Hudson. Now he sent a radio message to Hampshire asking him whether he could return and take his party out. But the flying-boat was half-way to Darwin, and lacked the fuel to cover the additional distance. Hampshire knew also that to attempt a night landing in the mine-sown waters off Laha would be to take a very grave risk of losing his flying-boat and everyone in it. He had no course but to fly on. Earlier it had been arranged that if a RAAF party should be left behind they would endeavour to go by native boat across Piru Bay from the north side of Ambon, to Geser Island off the south-east tip of Ceram.
Wing Commander Scott's last signal, sent on the 31st, read: "All cyphers burned. Demolition completed. Known Japanese landing at Leahari and Hukurila (about 3 miles apart on the east coast of the island and 5 to 6 miles from the town). Japanese have reached Laha from overland and engagement proceeding. Will call whenever possible." A signal received in Darwin at 1 am on the 31st announced that Laha radio station was about to be demolished. Just before the evacuation Scott
had been using a portable transceiver to communicate with Darwin and Namlea. This equipment, concealed in a camouflaged tent, was manned by a radio operator, Leading Aircraftman Laurence Douglas Walker (27521) for 24 hours after the last Hudson had taken off and until its batteries were exhausted. By that time the landing places of the invasion forces, their approximate strength, and details of the RAAF staff left behind had all been transmitted to Darwin.
Hampshire kept the emergency rendezvous off Geser Island in his flying boat on 12th February and again on the 15th, but without success. Scott and his party of ten were eventually posted missing. Later it was learned that the party had made their way across the hills to the north of Ambon
Island with the intention of crossing by boat to Ceram, but in doing so were intercepted in Piru Bay by a Japanese patrol boat and taken prisoner.
(1) Wing Commander John MacLean Hampshire DFC (256) was discharged from the RAAF on 28 August 1945.
Extract from Gillison, D.N. (Douglas Napier) (254475) Royal Australian Air Force 1939-1942, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1962 – Pages 376-7
The eleven RAAF Members taken prisoner were:
Squadron Leader Jack Fallow Anderson (253) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Sergeant James Baker (402700) (No. 2 Squadron)
Aircraftman Class 1 Frederick Arthur Evans (37304) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Corporal Frederick Walter Gaskin (16645) (No. 13 Squadron)
Aircraftman Class 1 John Allan Harris (24987) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer Francis Norman Meyer (290745) (No. 13 Squadron)
Sergeant Isaac Wood Read (406222) (No. 2 Squadron)
Wing Commander Ernest Dallas Scott AFC (250101) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer Harold George Verey (261029) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Leading Aircraftman Laurence Douglas Walker (27521) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer William Vyner Duckett White DFC (260624) (No. 2 Squadron)
All eleven Members were executed with dates of death recorded as 6 or 20 February 1942. About 300 Australian Army Members of Gull Force were similarly massacred around Laha at this time.
ervice Number: 27521
Enlisted: 20 August 1940
Last Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit: RAAF Station Darwin
Born: Kooringa, South Australia, 26 March 1918
Home Town: Croydon, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Electric Supply Co.
Died: Prisoner of War - Executed by the Japanese, Laha, Ambon Island, Netherlands East Indies, 20 February 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Ambon Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Burra High School Avenue of Memory, Burra WW1 & WW2 War Memorial
Following the Japanese invasion of Ambon Island a group of RAAF personnel working in support of Gull Force were captured trying to escape to Ceram. They were executed by the Japanese at Laha between the 6th and 20th of February 1942
Post-war their bodies were located in a mass grave; four individuals were positively identified and are buried in Ambon War Cemetery with the remaining seven commemorated on the Ambon Memorial to the missing
Positively identified; buried in Ambon War Cemetery with official date of death 6 of February 1942
Wing Commander Scott 250101
Flying Officer Verey 261029
Corporal Gaskin 16645
Aircraftman Evans 37304
Group burial; commemorated on the Ambon Memorial with official date of death 20 February 1942
Squadron Leader Anderson 253
Flight Lieutenant White 260624
Leading Aircraftman Walker 27521
Sergeant Read 406222
Aircraftman Harris 24987
Flight Sergeant Baker 402700
Flying Officer Meyer 290745
Service No: 27521
Born: Kooringa SA, 26 March 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 August 1940
Unit: Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin
Died: Prisoner of War (Executed), Netherlands East Indies, 20 February 1942, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Oswald Gilbert and May Walker, of Burra, South Australia.
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Column 10, Ambon Memorial, Indonesia
Remembered: Panel 97, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
On the evening of the 30th January 1942 two Hudsons remained at Ambon, detained by Wing Commander Ernest Dallas Scott (250101) so that he would have "last minute" reconnaissance reports of the enemy invasion force, but the time had come for the last act of evacuation, and the Hudsons were being refuelled for the flight to Darwin. The pilots, Flying Officer Jack Haythorn (260722) and Flying Officer William Vyner Duckett White (260624) were discussing the loading when a stream of petrol was seen coming from the main fuel line of White's aircraft; the line had been shattered by an enemy bullet and the fuel was running from the tank side of the main fuel cock, which meant that all tanks would be drained. Twenty-eight officers and other ranks were waiting on the airfield to fly to Darwin. Scott revised his plans and ordered 17 of them on boar d the serviceable Hudson. That left eight besides the pilot, co-pilot—Flying Officer Francis Norman Meyer (290745) —and himself. Haythorn took his aircraft off about midnight and Scott's party went to work on the damaged aircraft. The task was beyond them with the equipment they had. Scott, who earlier had been in telephone communication with Halong while Flight Lieutenant Hampshire's (1) (No. 11 Squadron) flying-boat was embarking the last of the staff there, had told him to take off and said that he and the remainder of the Laha party would fly out in White's Hudson. Now he sent a radio message to Hampshire asking him whether he could return and take his party out. But the flying-boat was half-way to Darwin, and lacked the fuel to cover the additional distance. Hampshire knew also that to attempt a night landing in the mine-sown waters off Laha would be to take a very grave risk of losing his flying-boat and everyone in it. He had no course but to fly on. Earlier it had been arranged that if a RAAF party should be left behind they would endeavour to go by native boat across Piru Bay from the north side of Ambon, to Geser Island off the south-east tip of Ceram.
Wing Commander Scott's last signal, sent on the 31st, read: "All cyphers burned. Demolition completed. Known Japanese landing at Leahari and Hukurila (about 3 miles apart on the east coast of the island and 5 to 6 miles from the town). Japanese have reached Laha from overland and engagement proceeding. Will call whenever possible." A signal received in Darwin at 1 am on the 31st announced that Laha radio station was about to be demolished. Just before the evacuation Scott
had been using a portable transceiver to communicate with Darwin and Namlea. This equipment, concealed in a camouflaged tent, was manned by a radio operator, Leading Aircraftman Laurence Douglas Walker (27521) for 24 hours after the last Hudson had taken off and until its batteries were exhausted. By that time the landing places of the invasion forces, their approximate strength, and details of the RAAF staff left behind had all been transmitted to Darwin.
Hampshire kept the emergency rendezvous off Geser Island in his flying boat on 12th February and again on the 15th, but without success. Scott and his party of ten were eventually posted missing. Later it was learned that the party had made their way across the hills to the north of Ambon
Island with the intention of crossing by boat to Ceram, but in doing so were intercepted in Piru Bay by a Japanese patrol boat and taken prisoner.
(1) Wing Commander John MacLean Hampshire DFC (256) was discharged from the RAAF on 28 August 1945.
Extract from Gillison, D.N. (Douglas Napier) (254475) Royal Australian Air Force 1939-1942, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1962 – Pages 376-7
The eleven RAAF Members taken prisoner were:
Squadron Leader Jack Fallow Anderson (253) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Sergeant James Baker (402700) (No. 2 Squadron)
Aircraftman Class 1 Frederick Arthur Evans (37304) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Corporal Frederick Walter Gaskin (16645) (No. 13 Squadron)
Aircraftman Class 1 John Allan Harris (24987) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer Francis Norman Meyer (290745) (No. 13 Squadron)
Sergeant Isaac Wood Read (406222) (No. 2 Squadron)
Wing Commander Ernest Dallas Scott AFC (250101) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer Harold George Verey (261029) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Leading Aircraftman Laurence Douglas Walker (27521) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer William Vyner Duckett White DFC (260624) (No. 2 Squadron)
All eleven Members were executed with dates of death recorded as 6 or 20 February 1942. About 300 Australian Army Members of Gull Force were similarly massacred around Laha at this time.
Cenotaph here
ervice Number: 27521
Enlisted: 20 August 1940
Last Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit: RAAF Station Darwin
Born: Kooringa, South Australia, 26 March 1918
Home Town: Croydon, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Electric Supply Co.
Died: Prisoner of War - Executed by the Japanese, Laha, Ambon Island, Netherlands East Indies, 20 February 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Ambon Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Burra High School Avenue of Memory, Burra WW1 & WW2 War Memorial
Following the Japanese invasion of Ambon Island a group of RAAF personnel working in support of Gull Force were captured trying to escape to Ceram. They were executed by the Japanese at Laha between the 6th and 20th of February 1942
Post-war their bodies were located in a mass grave; four individuals were positively identified and are buried in Ambon War Cemetery with the remaining seven commemorated on the Ambon Memorial to the missing
Positively identified; buried in Ambon War Cemetery with official date of death 6 of February 1942
Wing Commander Scott 250101
Flying Officer Verey 261029
Corporal Gaskin 16645
Aircraftman Evans 37304
Group burial; commemorated on the Ambon Memorial with official date of death 20 February 1942
Squadron Leader Anderson 253
Flight Lieutenant White 260624
Leading Aircraftman Walker 27521
Sergeant Read 406222
Aircraftman Harris 24987
Flight Sergeant Baker 402700
Flying Officer Meyer 290745
Service No: 27521
Born: Kooringa SA, 26 March 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 August 1940
Unit: Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin
Died: Prisoner of War (Executed), Netherlands East Indies, 20 February 1942, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Oswald Gilbert and May Walker, of Burra, South Australia.
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Column 10, Ambon Memorial, Indonesia
Remembered: Panel 97, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
On the evening of the 30th January 1942 two Hudsons remained at Ambon, detained by Wing Commander Ernest Dallas Scott (250101) so that he would have "last minute" reconnaissance reports of the enemy invasion force, but the time had come for the last act of evacuation, and the Hudsons were being refuelled for the flight to Darwin. The pilots, Flying Officer Jack Haythorn (260722) and Flying Officer William Vyner Duckett White (260624) were discussing the loading when a stream of petrol was seen coming from the main fuel line of White's aircraft; the line had been shattered by an enemy bullet and the fuel was running from the tank side of the main fuel cock, which meant that all tanks would be drained. Twenty-eight officers and other ranks were waiting on the airfield to fly to Darwin. Scott revised his plans and ordered 17 of them on boar d the serviceable Hudson. That left eight besides the pilot, co-pilot—Flying Officer Francis Norman Meyer (290745) —and himself. Haythorn took his aircraft off about midnight and Scott's party went to work on the damaged aircraft. The task was beyond them with the equipment they had. Scott, who earlier had been in telephone communication with Halong while Flight Lieutenant Hampshire's (1) (No. 11 Squadron) flying-boat was embarking the last of the staff there, had told him to take off and said that he and the remainder of the Laha party would fly out in White's Hudson. Now he sent a radio message to Hampshire asking him whether he could return and take his party out. But the flying-boat was half-way to Darwin, and lacked the fuel to cover the additional distance. Hampshire knew also that to attempt a night landing in the mine-sown waters off Laha would be to take a very grave risk of losing his flying-boat and everyone in it. He had no course but to fly on. Earlier it had been arranged that if a RAAF party should be left behind they would endeavour to go by native boat across Piru Bay from the north side of Ambon, to Geser Island off the south-east tip of Ceram.
Wing Commander Scott's last signal, sent on the 31st, read: "All cyphers burned. Demolition completed. Known Japanese landing at Leahari and Hukurila (about 3 miles apart on the east coast of the island and 5 to 6 miles from the town). Japanese have reached Laha from overland and engagement proceeding. Will call whenever possible." A signal received in Darwin at 1 am on the 31st announced that Laha radio station was about to be demolished. Just before the evacuation Scott
had been using a portable transceiver to communicate with Darwin and Namlea. This equipment, concealed in a camouflaged tent, was manned by a radio operator, Leading Aircraftman Laurence Douglas Walker (27521) for 24 hours after the last Hudson had taken off and until its batteries were exhausted. By that time the landing places of the invasion forces, their approximate strength, and details of the RAAF staff left behind had all been transmitted to Darwin.
Hampshire kept the emergency rendezvous off Geser Island in his flying boat on 12th February and again on the 15th, but without success. Scott and his party of ten were eventually posted missing. Later it was learned that the party had made their way across the hills to the north of Ambon
Island with the intention of crossing by boat to Ceram, but in doing so were intercepted in Piru Bay by a Japanese patrol boat and taken prisoner.
(1) Wing Commander John MacLean Hampshire DFC (256) was discharged from the RAAF on 28 August 1945.
Extract from Gillison, D.N. (Douglas Napier) (254475) Royal Australian Air Force 1939-1942, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1962 – Pages 376-7
The eleven RAAF Members taken prisoner were:
Squadron Leader Jack Fallow Anderson (253) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Sergeant James Baker (402700) (No. 2 Squadron)
Aircraftman Class 1 Frederick Arthur Evans (37304) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Corporal Frederick Walter Gaskin (16645) (No. 13 Squadron)
Aircraftman Class 1 John Allan Harris (24987) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer Francis Norman Meyer (290745) (No. 13 Squadron)
Sergeant Isaac Wood Read (406222) (No. 2 Squadron)
Wing Commander Ernest Dallas Scott AFC (250101) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer Harold George Verey (261029) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Leading Aircraftman Laurence Douglas Walker (27521) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer William Vyner Duckett White DFC (260624) (No. 2 Squadron)
All eleven Members were executed with dates of death recorded as 6 or 20 February 1942. About 300 Australian Army Members of Gull Force were similarly massacred around Laha at this time.
ervice Number: 27521
Enlisted: 20 August 1940
Last Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit: RAAF Station Darwin
Born: Kooringa, South Australia, 26 March 1918
Home Town: Croydon, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Electric Supply Co.
Died: Prisoner of War - Executed by the Japanese, Laha, Ambon Island, Netherlands East Indies, 20 February 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Ambon Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Burra High School Avenue of Memory, Burra WW1 & WW2 War Memorial
Following the Japanese invasion of Ambon Island a group of RAAF personnel working in support of Gull Force were captured trying to escape to Ceram. They were executed by the Japanese at Laha between the 6th and 20th of February 1942
Post-war their bodies were located in a mass grave; four individuals were positively identified and are buried in Ambon War Cemetery with the remaining seven commemorated on the Ambon Memorial to the missing
Positively identified; buried in Ambon War Cemetery with official date of death 6 of February 1942
Wing Commander Scott 250101
Flying Officer Verey 261029
Corporal Gaskin 16645
Aircraftman Evans 37304
Group burial; commemorated on the Ambon Memorial with official date of death 20 February 1942
Squadron Leader Anderson 253
Flight Lieutenant White 260624
Leading Aircraftman Walker 27521
Sergeant Read 406222
Aircraftman Harris 24987
Flight Sergeant Baker 402700
Flying Officer Meyer 290745
Service No: 27521
Born: Kooringa SA, 26 March 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 August 1940
Unit: Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin
Died: Prisoner of War (Executed), Netherlands East Indies, 20 February 1942, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Oswald Gilbert and May Walker, of Burra, South Australia.
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Column 10, Ambon Memorial, Indonesia
Remembered: Panel 97, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
On the evening of the 30th January 1942 two Hudsons remained at Ambon, detained by Wing Commander Ernest Dallas Scott (250101) so that he would have "last minute" reconnaissance reports of the enemy invasion force, but the time had come for the last act of evacuation, and the Hudsons were being refuelled for the flight to Darwin. The pilots, Flying Officer Jack Haythorn (260722) and Flying Officer William Vyner Duckett White (260624) were discussing the loading when a stream of petrol was seen coming from the main fuel line of White's aircraft; the line had been shattered by an enemy bullet and the fuel was running from the tank side of the main fuel cock, which meant that all tanks would be drained. Twenty-eight officers and other ranks were waiting on the airfield to fly to Darwin. Scott revised his plans and ordered 17 of them on boar d the serviceable Hudson. That left eight besides the pilot, co-pilot—Flying Officer Francis Norman Meyer (290745) —and himself. Haythorn took his aircraft off about midnight and Scott's party went to work on the damaged aircraft. The task was beyond them with the equipment they had. Scott, who earlier had been in telephone communication with Halong while Flight Lieutenant Hampshire's (1) (No. 11 Squadron) flying-boat was embarking the last of the staff there, had told him to take off and said that he and the remainder of the Laha party would fly out in White's Hudson. Now he sent a radio message to Hampshire asking him whether he could return and take his party out. But the flying-boat was half-way to Darwin, and lacked the fuel to cover the additional distance. Hampshire knew also that to attempt a night landing in the mine-sown waters off Laha would be to take a very grave risk of losing his flying-boat and everyone in it. He had no course but to fly on. Earlier it had been arranged that if a RAAF party should be left behind they would endeavour to go by native boat across Piru Bay from the north side of Ambon, to Geser Island off the south-east tip of Ceram.
Wing Commander Scott's last signal, sent on the 31st, read: "All cyphers burned. Demolition completed. Known Japanese landing at Leahari and Hukurila (about 3 miles apart on the east coast of the island and 5 to 6 miles from the town). Japanese have reached Laha from overland and engagement proceeding. Will call whenever possible." A signal received in Darwin at 1 am on the 31st announced that Laha radio station was about to be demolished. Just before the evacuation Scott
had been using a portable transceiver to communicate with Darwin and Namlea. This equipment, concealed in a camouflaged tent, was manned by a radio operator, Leading Aircraftman Laurence Douglas Walker (27521) for 24 hours after the last Hudson had taken off and until its batteries were exhausted. By that time the landing places of the invasion forces, their approximate strength, and details of the RAAF staff left behind had all been transmitted to Darwin.
Hampshire kept the emergency rendezvous off Geser Island in his flying boat on 12th February and again on the 15th, but without success. Scott and his party of ten were eventually posted missing. Later it was learned that the party had made their way across the hills to the north of Ambon
Island with the intention of crossing by boat to Ceram, but in doing so were intercepted in Piru Bay by a Japanese patrol boat and taken prisoner.
(1) Wing Commander John MacLean Hampshire DFC (256) was discharged from the RAAF on 28 August 1945.
Extract from Gillison, D.N. (Douglas Napier) (254475) Royal Australian Air Force 1939-1942, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1962 – Pages 376-7
The eleven RAAF Members taken prisoner were:
Squadron Leader Jack Fallow Anderson (253) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Sergeant James Baker (402700) (No. 2 Squadron)
Aircraftman Class 1 Frederick Arthur Evans (37304) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Corporal Frederick Walter Gaskin (16645) (No. 13 Squadron)
Aircraftman Class 1 John Allan Harris (24987) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer Francis Norman Meyer (290745) (No. 13 Squadron)
Sergeant Isaac Wood Read (406222) (No. 2 Squadron)
Wing Commander Ernest Dallas Scott AFC (250101) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer Harold George Verey (261029) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Leading Aircraftman Laurence Douglas Walker (27521) (Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin)
Flying Officer William Vyner Duckett White DFC (260624) (No. 2 Squadron)
All eleven Members were executed with dates of death recorded as 6 or 20 February 1942. About 300 Australian Army Members of Gull Force were similarly massacred around Laha at this time.
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