ANDREWS, Athol Martin
Service Number: | 412351 |
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Enlisted: | 19 July 1941 |
Last Rank: | Flight Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | No. 24 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, 29 July 1913 |
Home Town: | Balgowlah, Manly Vale, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Machine Compositor employed by Lake and Ashes Pty Ltd |
Died: | Flying Battle, Borneo, 2 July 1945, aged 31 years |
Cemetery: |
Labuan War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot 18. Row D. Grave 1. Personal Inscription: - "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE". |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
19 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 412351, No. 2 Initial Training School Bradfield Park, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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19 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 412351 | |
27 Jul 1943: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 412351, No. 73 Squadron (RAAF), Australia's Northern Periphery | |
7 Aug 1944: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 412351, No. 67 Squadron, Australia's Northern Periphery | |
14 Dec 1944: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 412351, No. 24 Squadron (RAAF), Australia's Northern Periphery |
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7 Operational Training Unit
Rank - Flight Lt.
Plane was Liberator A72-64
Son of William Henry and Eva Andrews; husband of Eva Johns Andrews, of Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia.
Biography contributed by Dianne Black
Final Mission: - On 2nd July 1945, Liberator A72-64 was detailed to carry out a bombing support operation against front line Japanese positions. The aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed behind enemy lines in the Balikpapan area at 1245 hours. No parachutes were seen from the aircraft and all were posted missing, believed killed. Several land parties failed to locate the crash site until an Auster Air Observation Post aircraft flew over the site. On the 1st August a reconnaissance party from the 33rd Battalion AIF recovered the bodies of the crew.