WOODCROFT, Stanley Ernest
Service Number: | 22630 |
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Enlisted: | 10 June 1940, Enlisted at Brisbane |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 23 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 16 May 1918 |
Home Town: | Corinda, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Insurance clerk |
Died: | Flying Battle, New Britain, Pacific Islands, New Guinea, 21 January 1942, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea Panel 36 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane State High School Honour Board, Rabaul Memorial |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sergeant, 22630 | |
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10 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 22630, Enlisted at Brisbane | |
20 Jan 1942: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, No. 23 Squadron (RAAF), Battle of Rabaul |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Ernest Tillotson Woodcroft and Elsie Anna Woodcroft; husband of Vida May Woodcroft of Sydney NSW. Vida and Stanley were married on the 21 April 1941 in the Presbyterian Church, Brisbane
Plane was a Wirraway
Medals: 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal
Biography contributed by David Barlow
Sergeant Stanley Ernest Woodcroft 22630 and Sergeant Robert Alfred Blackman 402844 were killed when Wirraway A20-319 was shot down into the sea by Japanese Zero aircraft near Rabaul, New Guinea - they are commemorated on the Rabaul Memorial as their bodies were not recovered.