Walter Robert BARTLEY

BARTLEY, Walter Robert

    Service Numbers: P135, 267521
    Enlisted: 27 January 1942, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
    Last Rank: Pilot Officer
    Last Unit: RAAF Reserve (Civil Aircrew)
    Born: Belmore, New South Wales, 21 January 1919
    Home Town: Lakemba, Canterbury, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Not yet discovered
    Died: Accidental (air crash), Coral Sea, Coral Sea, Pacific Islands, 22 April 1943, aged 24 years
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    At Sea, Port Moresby Memorial, Port Moresby, Papua, Papua New Guinea
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Moresby (Bomana) Memorial
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    World War 2 Service

    27 Jan 1942: Enlisted Private, P135, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
    27 Jan 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, P135
    14 Oct 1942: Discharged Private, P135, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit
    22 Apr 1943: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 267521, RAAF Reserve (Civil Aircrew)
    Date unknown: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 267521

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    Biography

    Reservist. Plane was QANTAS flying boat VH-ADU. Lost near Port Morseby

    During the war, Qantas was used to ferry soldiers & machinery to the war zones.  After being discharged from the Army, Walter joined Qantas as a Purser and it was on one of these missions flying from Port Moresby that his plane went down.   He was never found and there is a small account of this in the book "Frontline Airline" by E. Bennett-Bremner.

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