Donald Ernest HIGGS

HIGGS, Donald Ernest

Service Numbers: 410549, V27925
Enlisted: 4 January 1940
Last Rank: Flying Officer
Last Unit: No. 459 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, 23 September 1918
Home Town: Caulfield, Glen Eira, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Flying Battle, Aegean Sea, Greece, 28 June 1944, aged 25 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Alamein Memorial, El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Marsa Matruh, Egypt
Memorials: Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Flying Officer, 410549
4 Jan 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V27925
30 Jan 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force
30 Jan 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 410549
28 Jun 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 410549, No. 459 Squadron (RAAF), Middle East / Mediterranean Theatre

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Ventura GRV JT838 of 459 Squadron RAAF crashed in the Aegean Sea en-route to the mission target of Castel Rosso in Italy with four of the crew killed - their bodies were not recovered and they are commemorated on the Alamein Memorial in Egypt

POND, Keith (Flying Officer) 423885

HIGGS, Donald Ernest (Flying Officer) 410549

SMITH, Leslie Alfred (Warrant Officer) 421486

WEBSTER, William Douglas (Warrant Officer) 412866

The sole survivor was Flight Sergeant Ross Smith 410754

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