HOLDSTOCK, James Adrian
Service Number: | 139230 |
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Enlisted: | 11 January 1944 |
Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
Last Unit: | No. 5 Airfield Construction Squadron |
Born: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 3 October 1924 |
Home Town: | Woolloomooloo, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | BHP steelworker |
Died: | Illness, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 8 August 1945, aged 20 years |
Cemetery: |
Goulburn General Cemetery, New South wales Plot G Row B Grave 7, Goulburn General Cemetery, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Parkes & District Cenotaph |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement 139230 | |
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11 Jan 1944: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 139230, No. 5 Airfield Construction Squadron | |
11 Jan 1944: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 139230, RAAF Hospitals |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
LAC Holdstock 139230 of Number 5 Airfield Construction Squadron died at Number 1 RAAF Hospital in Goulburn in August 1945 from complications following an accidental bullet wound he received in March 1945
AWM photo caption “while serving in Labuan, LAC Holdstock was wounded in the chest by a bullet on Biak airstrip” - the incident is covered in the book “Always First - RAAF Airfield Construction Squadrons 1942 - 1974”