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MOORE, Ernest Roy
Personal Details
Service Number: | 422625 |
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Enlisted: | 22 May 1942 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 158 Squadron (RAF) |
Born: | North Brighton, Victoria, 10 October 1922 |
Home Town: | Braddon, Australian Capital Territory |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Halifax Bomber shot down on a night raid over Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, 31 March 1944, aged 21 years |
Cemetery: |
Hanover War Cemetery Hannover War Cemetery, Hannover, Germany |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
22 May 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 422625, Aircrew Training Units, Enlisted WOOLLOOMOOLOO Sydney | |
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22 May 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 422625 | |
30 Mar 1944: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 422625, No. 158 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45, Navigator crewing LW724, radio call sign NP-S, during the air attack on Nuremberg on the night of 30 March 1944. Their plane was shot down by a German aircraft and crashed near Herborn-Seelbach. FO Shanahan bailed out and was taken prisoner of war in Germany. The rest of the crew were killed. |
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