Arthur Jack HUNTER

HUNTER, Arthur Jack

Service Number: 411069
Enlisted: 31 March 1941
Last Rank: Warrant Officer
Last Unit: No. 38 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 5 December 1919
Home Town: Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling: Plattsburg Intermediate High School, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Clerk, Invalid & Old Age Pensions Department, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Died: Aircraft accident, Dutch New Guinea, Netherlands East Indies, 18 September 1945, aged 25 years
Cemetery: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
Plot C8. Row B. 1-25 Collective Grave.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Dakota Transport A65-61
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Biography contributed by David Barlow

38SQN RAAF Dakota A65-61 crashed near Merauke, Dutch NG while on a mission to return 18 former POWs to Australia  

All on board were killed in the crash: SAWREY, Allan George (Flight Sergeant) 6188 / WILES, Keith Robert (Flight Sergeant) 27141 / BLACKMORE, Francis Leonard Henry (Sergeant) 47042 / DUNDERDALE, William Royce (Leading Aircraftsman) 170241 / WILKINSON, Eric (Warrant Officer) 405949 / HUNTER, Arthur Jack (Warrant Officer) 411069 / CAMPBELL, Allan (Warrant Officer) 412376 / HUGHES, Albert Clifford (Warrant Officer) 414566 / STIBBARD, Noel Royce (Flying Officer) 421110 / Sister Marie Eileen Craig 501399 RAAF Nursing Service of Number 2 Medical Air Evacuation Unit

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