DAVEY, Allan Edward Dearlove
Service Number: | 416939 |
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Enlisted: | 8 November 1941, Adelaide, SA |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 90 Squadron (RAF) |
Born: | Unley Park, South Australia, 12 August 1921 |
Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
Schooling: | Highgate Public School, Adelaide & St Peters College, Adelaide, South Australia |
Occupation: | Clerk & Station Hand |
Died: | Accidental, United Kingdom., 26 February 1944, aged 22 years |
Cemetery: |
Budleigh Salterton Church Cemetery, Devon, England |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hawker District WW2 Roll of Honour, Hawker Walk of Honour, Hawker War Memorial Park, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
World War 2 Service
8 Nov 1941: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, 416939 | |
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8 Nov 1941: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
30 Nov 1942: | Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, 416939, from Melbourne | |
26 Feb 1944: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 416939, No. 90 Squadron (RAF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Allan Edward Dearlove DAVEY was born in Unley Park, South Australia on 12th August, 1921
His parents were Horace Edward DAVEY & Floradora Stephen MECHEN who married in Malvern Methodist Church, South Australia on 3rd April, 1920
He married Doris Lilian Margaret SEDGEMORE in Devon Central, UK in 1943 - she was in the Womens Royal Naval Service.
Allan died accidentally during an air operation on 26th February, 1944, 4 miles North West from Chedburgh in England & is buried in Budleigh Salterton Church Cemetery in Devon