OLIVE, Melville Arthur Chaloner
Service Number: | 405600 |
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Enlisted: | 26 April 1941 |
Last Rank: | Pilot Officer |
Last Unit: | No. 2 Service Flying Training School Forest Hill |
Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 18 December 1917 |
Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Unknown |
Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
Died: | Accidental (Flying Accident), Point Cook, Victoria, Australia, 28 January 1942, aged 24 years |
Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland Columbarium Wall 2 Section 7 Niche 546 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Pilot Officer, 405600 | |
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26 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 405600, No. 2 Service Flying Training School Forest Hill |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Gipsy Moth A7-74 from the General Reconnaissance School at Laverton crashed 2 miles SW of Point Cook aerodrome in sea mouth of the Werribee River killing Pilot Officer Melville Arthur Chaloner Olive 405600 (Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens, Brisbane) and Pilot Officer Edward Miles Beaumont 408791 (Burwood General Cemetery, Victoria)
Biography contributed
Melville Arthur Chaloner OLIVE was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 18th December, 1917
His parents were Hugh Chalonor OLIVE & Maud Lucinda EXLEY
He married Olive Mabel WRIGHT in Queensland on 9th August, 1941