KNAPP, Jack Frederick
Service Number: | 415664 |
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Enlisted: | 7 December 1941 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 142 Squadron (RAF) |
Born: | Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, 19 October 1920 |
Home Town: | East Fremantle, East Fremantle, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Fremantle Boys School, Western Australia |
Occupation: | Printer |
Died: | Flying Battle, Issime, Italy, 24 November 1943, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
Milan War Cemetery Collective grave Plot V1, Row B, Grave 6, Milan War Cemetery, Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 415664 | |
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7 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 415664, No. 142 Squadron (RAF), Enlisted at Perth, WA | |
7 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 415664 | |
15 Jan 1943: | Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 415664, No. 142 Squadron (RAF), Embarked at Melbourne for UK |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Henry Lee Knapp and Daisy Amelia of EAst Fremantle, WA
Plane was Wellington LN466 which crashed into a mountain near Issime, Italy while on air operations over Turin and it was almost two years before the crew's remains were recovered as the mountain has very steep slopes is inaccessible except for about 2 months each year
Prior to enlisted he had been apprenticed to Port & Salmon, Printers of Fremantle, WA
Sports played at school were:- football, badminton, tennis, swimming