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Son of George and Alice May Bishop, of Prospect, South Australia.

Educated at Nailsworth and Adelaide High Schools. Member of Prospect Baptist Tennis Club. In civil life was with the Prudential Insurance Coy, Adelaide joining as a junior clerk in March 1939. In May 1940 was appointed cashier. Was a very popular and efficent and conscientious officer. Joined the Air Force in 1941 and underwent training as wireless gunner receiving promotion from rank of Leading Aircraftman to Pilot Officer. He was killed during an operational flight at Geraldton West Australia on March 15 1943.

Information supplied from The Personal Pictorial Honor Roll of South Australians who enlisted in the Second World War.

Pilot Officer George Bishop, Service Number 417040, was serving as a wireless air-gunner in a No.14 Squadron Beaufort A9-173 enroute from Geraldton to Carnarvon on an anti-submarine patrol also transporting Ground staff for aircraft mechanical duties at Carnarvon, W.A.
The aircraft flew into the crest of a hill (600 feet), located 2 miles east of Yetna, in overcast conditions

PLANE DISASTER
DEATHS OF EIGHT MEN
ACCIDENT IN WEST AUSTRALIA
In a plane crash which occurred on Monday in this State eight airmen were killed, five of them being West Australians.
The victims were: —
Pilot-Officer George Bishop (wireless air-gunner), of 69 Kentore Avenue, Prospect, South Australia.
Sergeant Donald Ashby Waite (pilot of the plane), of Goldie Street, Wynyard, Tasmania.
Sergeant Robert Ambrose Redman (observer), of 262 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia.
Sergeant Edward Watling (wireless air-gunner), Prospect Road, Armadale, Western Australia.
Sergeant Charles Vincent Patching (fitter), Pearce, Western Australia.
L.A.C. Herbert Spencer Kilpatrick (fitter), 218 Perth Road, Bassendean, Western Australia.
L.A.C. George Louis Pedrotta (flight mechanic), Wilkins Road, Bellevue, Western Australia.
A.C.1 Godfrey Carter (electrician), 4 Parker Street, South Perth, Western Australia.
A.C.1 Carter, of South Perth, is survived by his widow and twin sons (6).
From the announcing staff of 6PM. he was appointed to a similar position with the Australian Broadcasting Commission in May, 1939. Later he was made acting supervisor, an appointment which he held until he enlisted in the R.A.A.F. His brother, Bernard, who was an announcer for W.A. Broadcasters Ltd., is also serving in the R.A.A.F. Their father, Mr. O. Carter, of Perth, was formerly a paymaster captain in the Royal Navy.