Donald Leighton Spence BARR

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BARR, Donald Leighton Spence

Service Number:	409649
Enlisted:	10 October 1941
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 103 Squadron (RAF)
Born:	Essendon, Victoria, Australia, 3 March 1922
Home Town:	Brighton, Bayside, Victoria
Schooling:	Scotch College, Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Flying Battle, North Sea (off coast of France), Atlantic Ocean, 7 July 1943, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England. Panel 192 Commemorated on the of Honour Brighton, Victoria, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brighton Congregational Church Honour Roll WW2, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial

World War 2 Service

10 Oct 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 409649, Melbourne, Victoria
10 Oct 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 409649, No. 103 Squadron (RAF)
7 Jul 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 409649, No. 103 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

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Biography

103 Squadron

Rank - Flight Sergeant

Plane was Lancaster W4363

Prior to enlisted worked with BH Pty Ltd in Melbourne

School subjects: English, Arithmetic, Algebra, French, Geometry/Trigonometry, Geography

Son of Leslie Albert Leighton BARR and Gwendoline Rebecca SPENCE, of Elwood, Victoria, Australia.

Donald was born on 3rd Marcyh 1922 in Essendon, Victoria - he enlisted on 10th October 1941 with the Royal Australian Air Force

He embarked from Melbourne on 22nd May, 1942 for Canada and U.K.

Presumed died on 7th July 1943 at sea off France (North Sea, Atlantic Ocean) in a Lancaster Bomber as a result of an air operation (flying battle)

He is listed on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 192 & The Roll of Honour in Brighton, Victoria

MEMORIAL PAGE

http://www.raafdb.com/view_casualty.asp?id=494 (www.raafdb.com)

COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1083411/BARR,%20DONALD%20LEIGHTON%20SPENCE (www.cwgc.org)

PHOTO of Donald & his Unit - Group Portrait taken June 1942 in Ontario, Canada

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P00943.001 (www.awm.gov.au)

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