Donald Robert BAWDEN

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Service Number:	47060
Enlisted:	22 September 1941
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura
Born:	Port Broughton, South Australia, 18 September 1914
Home Town:	Lochiel, Wakefield, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Accidental Drowning, Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 31 January 1943, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	Mildura (Nichols Point) Public Cemetery, Victoria Methodist Plot. Sec. F. Grave 92.
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lochiel District Honour Roll, Lochiel Methodist Church Memorial Window, Snowtown Memorial Hospital Honour Roll WW2

22 Sep 1941:	Involvement 47060
22 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide
22 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 47060
31 Jan 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Son of Arthur Slack Bawden and Gertrude Thompson Bawden of Lochiel, South Australia

Heart failure while swimming in the Murray River at Mildura, Victoria - details from the book “The sky was their battlefield” by Ken Mackenzie Wright