Thorold Olsson PORTEOUS

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PORTEOUS, Thorold Olsson

Service Number:	407182
Enlisted:	20 July 1940
Last Rank:	Squadron Leader
Last Unit:	HQ (RAF) Burma
Born:	Murray Bridge, South Australia, 5 February 1914
Home Town:	Murray Bridge, Murray Bridge, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Illness, Springbank Repatriation Hospital, South Australia, 12 September 1947, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Murray Bridge (Adelaide Road) Cemetery, S.A. RSL Plot - Row 2 - Grave 22 (GRM/5)
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20 Jul 1940:	Involvement Squadron Leader, 407182
20 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide
20 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 407182
3 May 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 407182, HQ (RAF) Burma, Air War SE Asia 1941-45
19 Feb 1946:	Discharged

Biography contributed by David Barlow

Squadron Leader Porteous trained as aircrew in Australia and Rhodesia followed by operational service in the Middle East & India with Number 11 Squadron RAF

11SQN RAF operated Bristol Blenheim light bombers from Colombo, Ceylon on attacks on Japanese shipping in 1942 - during 1943 it re-equipped with Hurricane fighters and moved to Burma in the ground attack role, supporting the Fourteenth Army

By this time RAAF personnel, or Australians serving in the RAF, made up almost 90% of the aircrews in the squadron - including the CO, Wing Commander Harley Stumm

11 Squadron was one of the few RAF squadrons to fight against Italian, German, Vichy French and Japanese forces

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