WW2 Service Royal Australian Air Force Rank Pilot Officer 421099
Posting on Death: 2 Operational Training Unit.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wirraway A20-349; Place - Mildura, Vic; Date - 21 January 1943.
Collided with Wirraway A20-277 of 2 Otu over Koorlong near Mildura during air combat practice.
The crew members of A20-349 were:
Sergeant Alan Frederick Bates (413510) (Pilot under training)
Pilot Officer Geoffrey Edgar Taaffe (421099) (Staff Pilot)
The crew members of A20-277 were:
Flight Lieutenant James Stuart Menzies (250816) (Staff Pilot) Slightly injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 12 July 1946
Sergeant John Michael David Ryan (414839) (Pilot under training)
Son of Robert James Taaffe and Harrietta Dorothy Taaffe, of Ashfield, New South Wales.
He is commemorated on the Community Roll of Honour in Ashfield NSW, also his name is located at panel 113 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Posting on Death: 2 Operational Training Unit.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wirraway A20-349; Place - Mildura, Vic; Date - 21 January 1943.
Collided with Wirraway A20-277 of 2 Otu over Koorlong near Mildura during air combat practice.
The crew members of A20-349 were:
Sergeant Alan Frederick Bates (413510) (Pilot under training)
Pilot Officer Geoffrey Edgar Taaffe (421099) (Staff Pilot)
The crew members of A20-277 were:
Flight Lieutenant James Stuart Menzies (250816) (Staff Pilot) Slightly injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 12 July 1946
Sergeant John Michael David Ryan (414839) (Pilot under training)
Son of Robert James Taaffe and Harrietta Dorothy Taaffe, of Ashfield, New South Wales.
He is commemorated on the Community Roll of Honour in Ashfield NSW, also his name is located at panel 113 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
WW2 Service Royal Australian Air Force Rank Pilot Officer 421099
Posting on Death: 2 Operational Training Unit.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wirraway A20-349; Place - Mildura, Vic; Date - 21 January 1943.
Collided with Wirraway A20-277 of 2 Otu over Koorlong near Mildura during air combat practice.
The crew members of A20-349 were:
Sergeant Alan Frederick Bates (413510) (Pilot under training)
Pilot Officer Geoffrey Edgar Taaffe (421099) (Staff Pilot)
The crew members of A20-277 were:
Flight Lieutenant James Stuart Menzies (250816) (Staff Pilot) Slightly injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 12 July 1946
Sergeant John Michael David Ryan (414839) (Pilot under training)
Son of Robert James Taaffe and Harrietta Dorothy Taaffe, of Ashfield, New South Wales.
He is commemorated on the Community Roll of Honour in Ashfield NSW, also his name is located at panel 113 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Posting on Death: 2 Operational Training Unit.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wirraway A20-349; Place - Mildura, Vic; Date - 21 January 1943.
Collided with Wirraway A20-277 of 2 Otu over Koorlong near Mildura during air combat practice.
The crew members of A20-349 were:
Sergeant Alan Frederick Bates (413510) (Pilot under training)
Pilot Officer Geoffrey Edgar Taaffe (421099) (Staff Pilot)
The crew members of A20-277 were:
Flight Lieutenant James Stuart Menzies (250816) (Staff Pilot) Slightly injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 12 July 1946
Sergeant John Michael David Ryan (414839) (Pilot under training)
Son of Robert James Taaffe and Harrietta Dorothy Taaffe, of Ashfield, New South Wales.
He is commemorated on the Community Roll of Honour in Ashfield NSW, also his name is located at panel 113 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
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421099 Pilot Officer
G. E. Taaffe
Royal Australian Air Force
21st January 1943 Age 23
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