Donald Ashby WAITE

WAITE, Donald Ashby

Service Number: 411973
Enlisted: 21 June 1941, Sydney, NSW
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: No. 14 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Wynyard, Tas., 31 October 1921
Home Town: Wynyard, Waratah/Wynyard, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Clerk - Commonwealth Bureau of Census & Statistics Canberra
Died: Accidental, Yetna, WA, 15 March 1943, aged 21 years
Cemetery: Geraldton War Cemetery, Western Australia
Plot A. Row A. Grave 10.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Narra Tarra Beaufort Bomber A9-173 Air Crash Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Sergeant, 411973
21 Jun 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 411973, No. 14 Squadron (RAAF), Sydney, NSW

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Alfred Henry WAITE and Charlotte May nee WHITE of Wynyard, Tas.

EIGHT MEN KILLED.
FIVE WEST AUSTRALIANS.
PERTH, This Morning - In a plane crash which occurred on Monday in this State, 8 airmen were killed, 5 being West Australians. The victims were: Pilot- Officer George Bishop (wireless air gunner), Prospect, S.A.; Sgt. Donald Ashby Waite (pilot of plane), Tasmania; Sgt. Robert Ambrose Redman  (observer), Adelaide, S.A.; Sgt. Edward Watling (wireless air gunner), Armadale; Sgt. Charles Vincent Patching (fitter), Pearce; L.A.C. Herbert Spencer Kilpatrick (fitter), Bassendean; L.A.C. George Louis Pedrotta (flight mechanic), Bellevue; A.C.1 Godfrey Carter (electrician), South Perth.

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