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KNAPMAN, Alfred Sydney
Personal Details
Service Number: | 400806 |
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Enlisted: | 8 November 1940 |
Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
Last Unit: | No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura |
Born: | Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia, 19 January 1918 |
Home Town: | Kew, Boroondara, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Aircraft accident, Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 1 June 1944, aged 26 years |
Cemetery: |
Mildura (Nichols Point) Public Cemetery, Victoria War Graves Plot C. Row B. Grave 8, Mildura Public Cemetery, Mildura, Victoria, Australia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flying Officer, 400806 | |
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8 Nov 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura | |
8 Nov 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 400806 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Son of Alfred Edgar and Constance Lena Knapman
Husband of Florence Joy Knapman of East Kew, Victoria
Pilot of Boomerang aircraft A46-44 of Number 2 Operational Training Unit which crashed near Mildura, Victoria following a mid-air collision with A46-14