Royal Australian Air Force Rank Sergeant 432634
Posting on Death: 5 Service Flying Training School Uranquinty
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wirraway A20-583; Place - Mangoplah, New South Wales; Date - 24 March 1944.
Crashed During a Forced Landing 3 Miles East of Mangoplah, Nsw Due to Engine Failure on an Instrument Practice Flight, Pilot U/T Survived.
The crew members of A20-583 were:
Sergeant Edwin William Fleming (432634) (Instructor Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman 248580231
John Melvane Nesbitt (433616) (Trainee Pilot) Uninjured, Discharged from the RAAF: 13 March 1946.
Son of Edwin Leslie and Beatrice Rose (Shepherd) Fleming, of Babinda, North Queensland.
He is commemorated on the Community Roll of Honour in Canberra, his name is also located at panel 115 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (as indicated by the poppy on the plan).
Posting on Death: 5 Service Flying Training School Uranquinty
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wirraway A20-583; Place - Mangoplah, New South Wales; Date - 24 March 1944.
Crashed During a Forced Landing 3 Miles East of Mangoplah, Nsw Due to Engine Failure on an Instrument Practice Flight, Pilot U/T Survived.
The crew members of A20-583 were:
Sergeant Edwin William Fleming (432634) (Instructor Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman 248580231
John Melvane Nesbitt (433616) (Trainee Pilot) Uninjured, Discharged from the RAAF: 13 March 1946.
Son of Edwin Leslie and Beatrice Rose (Shepherd) Fleming, of Babinda, North Queensland.
He is commemorated on the Community Roll of Honour in Canberra, his name is also located at panel 115 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (as indicated by the poppy on the plan).
Royal Australian Air Force Rank Sergeant 432634
Posting on Death: 5 Service Flying Training School Uranquinty
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wirraway A20-583; Place - Mangoplah, New South Wales; Date - 24 March 1944.
Crashed During a Forced Landing 3 Miles East of Mangoplah, Nsw Due to Engine Failure on an Instrument Practice Flight, Pilot U/T Survived.
The crew members of A20-583 were:
Sergeant Edwin William Fleming (432634) (Instructor Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman 248580231
John Melvane Nesbitt (433616) (Trainee Pilot) Uninjured, Discharged from the RAAF: 13 March 1946.
Son of Edwin Leslie and Beatrice Rose (Shepherd) Fleming, of Babinda, North Queensland.
He is commemorated on the Community Roll of Honour in Canberra, his name is also located at panel 115 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (as indicated by the poppy on the plan).
Posting on Death: 5 Service Flying Training School Uranquinty
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wirraway A20-583; Place - Mangoplah, New South Wales; Date - 24 March 1944.
Crashed During a Forced Landing 3 Miles East of Mangoplah, Nsw Due to Engine Failure on an Instrument Practice Flight, Pilot U/T Survived.
The crew members of A20-583 were:
Sergeant Edwin William Fleming (432634) (Instructor Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman 248580231
John Melvane Nesbitt (433616) (Trainee Pilot) Uninjured, Discharged from the RAAF: 13 March 1946.
Son of Edwin Leslie and Beatrice Rose (Shepherd) Fleming, of Babinda, North Queensland.
He is commemorated on the Community Roll of Honour in Canberra, his name is also located at panel 115 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (as indicated by the poppy on the plan).
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