Gordon LINDSAY

LINDSAY, Gordon

Service Number: 400720
Enlisted: 13 October 1940
Last Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Last Unit: No. 450 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Prahran, Victoria, Australia, 23 March 1922
Home Town: Prahran, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: RAAF Pilot
Died: Flying Accident, Archerfield aerodrome, Queensland, 26 November 1949, aged 27 years
Cemetery: Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

13 Oct 1940: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force
13 Oct 1940: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 400720, No. 450 Squadron (RAAF)
1 May 1945: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 400720, No. 450 Squadron (RAAF), Middle East / Mediterranean Theatre
19 Dec 1945: Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 400720, No. 450 Squadron (RAAF)
Date unknown: Involvement Flight Lieutenant, 400720

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Flight Lieutenant Gordon Lindsay 400720 was killed when his Mustang fighter aircraft A68-80 crashed on approach to Archerfield aerodrome in Queensland in November 1949

On the 22nd of October 1942 he became a Prisoner of War after he was shot down by a Messerschmitt Me-109 and crash-landed his 450SQN Kittyhawk near El Daba

In October 1941 he was flying with 66SQN RAF in the UK