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PAXMAN, Leonard Gower
Personal Details
Service Number: | 420999 |
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Enlisted: | 6 December 1941 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 158 Squadron (RAF) |
Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 7 October 1918 |
Home Town: | Naremburn, Willoughby, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Printer |
Died: | Halifax bomber shot down over Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, 31 March 1944, aged 25 years |
Cemetery: |
Hanover War Cemetery |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
6 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 420999, Aircrew Training Units | |
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6 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 420999 | |
1 Apr 1942: | Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, No. 3 Wireless Air Gunnery School Maryborough , Posted to No. 3 WAGS, RAAF Maryborough for training as a Wireless Air Gunner on Course 24, completed on course 25. | |
15 Oct 1942: | Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, No. 1 Bombing and AIr Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head, Posted to No. 1 BAGS, Evans Head for Air Gunner Training. | |
30 Mar 1944: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 420999, No. 158 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45, Wireless Operator crewing LW724, radio call sign NP-S, during the air attack on Nuremberg on the night of 30 March 1944. Their aircraft was shot down by a German aircraft and crashed near Herborn-Seelbach. Bomb Aimer FO Shanahan bailed out and was taken prisoner of war in Germany. The rest of the crew were killed. |
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