Max Fredrick KEARNS

KEARNS, Max Fredrick

    Service Numbers: 63459, N166903
    Enlisted: 22 October 1941
    Last Rank: Leading Aircraftman
    Last Unit: Mobile Works Squadrons
    Born: Brushgrove, New South Wales, Australia, 15 December 1922
    Home Town: Maclean, Clarence Valley, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Juice Tester
    Died: Ground Accident, Batchelor, Northern Territory, Australia, 16 June 1943, aged 20 years
    Cemetery: Adelaide River War Cemetery, Northern Territory
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    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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    World War 2 Service

    3 Sep 1939: Involvement 63459
    22 Oct 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N166903
    30 Mar 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, Mobile Works Squadrons
    30 Mar 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 63459

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    Biography contributed by David Barlow

    Son of Frederick Charles and Vida Azella Kearns of Maclean, NSW

     

    Leading Aircraftman Kearns 63459 of Number 3 Mobile Works Squadron at Gould airstrip (Batchelor, NT) was caught in the caterpillar tracks of his bulldozer while attempting to dismount from it while it was in motion. 

    Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

    His brother, Corporal Maurice Ainslie Kearns, Service Number 60046 served in the RAAF in WWII until he was  discharged 17 Apr 1946 [Posting at Discharge 15 SQUADRON]

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