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LAC Page Herbert Penfold

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LAC Page Herbert Penfold Veteran

Birth
Five Dock, Canada Bay City, New South Wales, Australia
Death
30 Jan 1944 (aged 18)
Marrar, Coolamon Shire, New South Wales, Australia
Burial
Wagga Wagga, Wagga Wagga City, New South Wales, Australia Add to Map
Plot
Plot B. Row A. Grave 11.
Memorial ID
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Royal Australian Air Force Rank Leading Aircraftman Sern 433621 (Pilot under training)
Posting on Death: 5 Service Flying Training School Uranquinty.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wirraway A20-461; Place - Marrar, Australia; Date - 29 January 1944
Flew into trees when low flying over the home of the Pilot's relatives at Marrar near Wagga Wagga, NSW during a Solo Cross Country.
Remembered on the Community Roll of Honour in Barmedman NSW, also his name is located at panel 116 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.

Son of Herbert William & Josephine May (Madden) Penfold, of Glebe Point.
Father Herbert William Penfold (1897-1946)
Mother Josephine May Madden (1897-1990)
Royal Australian Air Force Rank Leading Aircraftman Sern 433621 (Pilot under training)
Posting on Death: 5 Service Flying Training School Uranquinty.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wirraway A20-461; Place - Marrar, Australia; Date - 29 January 1944
Flew into trees when low flying over the home of the Pilot's relatives at Marrar near Wagga Wagga, NSW during a Solo Cross Country.
Remembered on the Community Roll of Honour in Barmedman NSW, also his name is located at panel 116 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.

Son of Herbert William & Josephine May (Madden) Penfold, of Glebe Point.
Father Herbert William Penfold (1897-1946)
Mother Josephine May Madden (1897-1990)

Inscription

For God and His Country
He Laid Down His Life


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