Ronald Wilford PARRY

PARRY, Ronald Wilford

Service Number: 434265
Enlisted: 6 November 1942
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: No. 80 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 14 September 1924
Home Town: Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Painter & Decorator
Died: Flying Accident, New Guinea , 13 January 1945, aged 20 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Ambon Memorial, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia
Memorials: Ambon Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bundaberg Civic Centre Memorial Portico
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World War 2 Service

6 Nov 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force
13 Jan 1945: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 434265, No. 80 Squadron (RAAF), Killed in Flying Battle

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

During a ferry flight from Noemfoor Island to Morotai Island on the 13th of January 1945 four Kittyhawk aircraft from Number 80 Squadron RAAF ditched into the sea near Karakelang and Maroh Islands in the Japanese-held Talaud Islands group

Flight Sergeant Ronald Wilford Parry 434265 in Kittyhawk A29-668 was not located and he is commemorated on the Ambon Memorial

The other three pilots were captured by the Japanese and made prisoners of war (POW); they were executed on 23 March 1945 at Beo in the Talaud Islands - Flight Sergeant Leon Newman King 434344 (A29-653), Warrant Officer Peter Waters 410186 (A29-630) and Flying Officer Francis Lawrence Hann 411448 (A29-508)

Following a war crimes trial in 1946 seven Japanese officers were sentenced to death for complicity in the murders of the three men

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