Frank Norman HAMOOD

HAMOOD, Frank Norman

Service Number: 409046
Enlisted: 21 June 1941
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: No. 466 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Mount Gambier, South Australia , 4 December 1919
Home Town: Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia
Schooling: Mt. Gambier Technical School, South Australia (1938-40)
Occupation: Spare Parts Salesman
Died: Flying Battle, France, 12 August 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Guidel Communal Cemetery, Morbihan, France
Local Roll of Honour- Geelong, Guidel Communal Cemetery, Guidel, Brittany, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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World War 2 Service

21 Jun 1941: Involvement Flight Sergeant, 409046
21 Jun 1941: Enlisted Melbourne, VIC
21 Jun 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 409046
23 Jan 1943: Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, No. 466 Squadron (RAAF)
15 Jul 1943: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 409046, No. 466 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

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Biography contributed by Graham Padget

Flight Sergeant Frank Norman Hamood was the son of Norman and Alvena Ann Caroline Hamood, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was a Spare Parts Salesman at Ford Australia Geelong.

466 Squadron Wellington LN442 took off from RAF Leconfield at 2356 hours on the night of 11 August 1943 to carry out a mining mission in French coastal waters off St Nazaire. Flight Sergeant Hamood was navigator for this mission.

 Eight aircraft from the Squadron took part in the mission and of these LN442 failed to return. It was later established that all the crew members had been killed.

(compiled and edited from AWM and Aviationmuseumwa.org.au)

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