William Anthony Jordan RODGERS

RODGERS, William Anthony Jordan

Service Number: 436889
Enlisted: 22 May 1943
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: No. 24 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Katanning, Western Australia, 28 February 1925
Home Town: Albany, Albany, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Aircraft crashed during an Operational Mission, Vansittart Bay, Western Australia, Vansittart Bay, Western Australia, Australia, 23 March 1945, aged 20 years
Cemetery: Adelaide River War Cemetery, Northern Territory
C.D.2, Adelaide River War Cemetery, Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia
Memorials: Albany War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Midland Railway Workshops Soldiers Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Flight Sergeant, 436889
22 May 1943: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, No. 24 Squadron (RAAF)
22 May 1943: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 436889

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of Cecil Robert and Rachel Josephine Rodgers of Albany, Western Australia

 

RAAF Liberator aircraft A72-80 of 24 Squadron crashed into Vansittart Bay, WA shortly after take-off from Truscott airstrip on an Operational mission - all on board were killed:

 

Bodies recovered, buried at Adelaide River War Cemetery -

Squadron Leader Nathaniel Ivan Straus 250759 (Mentioned in Despatches)

Flight Lieutenant Charles David Parry-Okeden 404485

Flight Sergeant William Anthony Jordan Rodgers 436889

 

Bodies not recovered, commemorated on the Northern Territory Memorial -

Flying Officer John Wilson Hursthouse 416215

Flying Officer Raymond Allenby Whiting 426733

Warrant Officer William Richard Flanagan 401748

Warrant Officer Herbert Gordon Parker 408591

Flight Sergeant Howey James Boyd 427775

Flight Sergeant Ronald Malcolm Morris 46563

Flight Sergeant John Richmond Ryan 422716

Sergeant Alexander Douglas Whitehead 121592

Corporal Douglas William Madden 36484

 

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