CONWAY, James Patrick
Service Number: | 31428 |
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Enlisted: | 22 June 1941 |
Last Rank: | Squadron Leader |
Last Unit: | HQ (RAF) Burma |
Born: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 1915 |
Home Town: | Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Illness, Bengal, India, 26 October 1946 |
Cemetery: |
Ranchi War Cemetery |
Memorials: |
Peacetime
22 Jun 1941: | Enlisted |
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World War 2 Service
8 Aug 1945: | Involvement Royal Air Force , Squadron Leader, 31428, HQ (RAF) Burma, Air War SE Asia 1941-45 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
The Age (Melbourne, Victoria) Thursday 31 October 1946 (repeated same day in The Argus)
On Active Service - on October 26 at Kankinara, Bengal, India, Squadron Leader James Patrick Conway (R.A.F.), dearly loved youngest son of John Conway of Geelong and loved brother of Eileen (Mrs Hodgkinson), John, Maurice, and Monica
Squadron Leader James Patrick Conway (Equipment Branch - Mentioned in despatches in June 1942) of 313 Maintenance Unit based at RAF Barrackpore died of an unspecified illness at Kankinara in Bengal, India
NAA file - CONWAY, James Patrick (Squadron Leader) 31428 Place: Barrackpore, Bengal, India 26 October 1946
Son of John Joseph and Mary Catherine Conway of Geelong, Victoria