Peter John CALDER

CALDER, Peter John

    Service Number: 417799
    Enlisted: 18 July 1942
    Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
    Last Unit: Operational Training Units (RAF)
    Born: Lower Mitcham, Adelaide South Australia , 25 May 1924
    Home Town: Unley Park, City of Unley, South Australia
    Schooling: Pultney Grammar School- St. Peters College Hackney Adelaide South Australia
    Occupation: Shipping Clerk
    Died: Aircraft Accident , Brackley Airfield Winchester England, England, United Kingdom, 17 March 1944, aged 19 years
    Cemetery: Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
    Plot 1/2 Grave 179
    Memorials: Adelaide Pulteney Grammar School WW2 Honour Roll, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brackley (UK) Wellington Bomber Suite and Plaque, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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    World War 2 Service

    18 Jul 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 417799, No. 4 Initial Training School Victor Harbor, Adelaide, South Australia
    18 Jul 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 417799
    25 May 1943: Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 417799, Emb. Sydney for U.K.
    8 Feb 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 417799, Operational Training Units (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45, 17 OTU (RAF)

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    Biography contributed by Graham Padget

    Flight Sergeant 417799 Calder, RAAF, was the son of Major John Calder and Ruby Calder of Unley Park, South Australia.

    He died on 17th March 1944, whilst on board Wellington Bomber BK 352 on a training flight which overshot the runway and crashed at Brackley Airfield, Winchester. Flt Sergeant Calder was 19.
     
    (findagrave.com - Stephen Potts)

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