BATEMAN, George William
Service Number: | 417327 |
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Enlisted: | 25 April 1942 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 463 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Unley, South Australia , 28 April 1912 |
Home Town: | St Morris, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Flying Battle, France, 25 June 1944, aged 32 years |
Cemetery: |
Bussus-Bussuel Communal Cemetery Row 1, Grave 3 Headstone Inscription "HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THOSE HE LOVED", Bussus-Bussuel Communal Cemetery, Bussus-Bussuel, Picardie, France |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
World War 2 Service
25 Apr 1942: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 417327, No. 463 Squadron (RAAF) | |
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25 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
25 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 417327 | |
Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of Sidney Davies and Florence Christina Ethel BATEMAN; husband of Marjorie Jean BATEMAN, of Magill, South Australia.
Flt Sgt Bateman was killed on the night of 24/25 June 1944 when his Lancaster bomber, serial number LM571, radio call-sign JO-E (E-Easy) failed to return from an operational sortie over Prouville, France. After the war it was determined that JO-E was hit by flack bursts over the target, and was later attacked by a German night-fighter, crashing at Busses-Bussuel (Somme). Six of the seven crew were killed.