Robert William FARROW

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FARROW, Robert William

Service Number:	41388
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Pilot Officer
Last Unit:	No. 114 Squadron (RAF)
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 1915
Home Town:	Kingsford, Randwick, New South Wales
Schooling:	Canberra Church of England Grammar School
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed In Action, Auxerre, France, 3 March 1940
Cemetery:	Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille 19 D 7
Memorials:	International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

World War 2 Service

Date unknown:	Involvement Royal Air Force , Pilot Officer, 41388, No. 114 Squadron (RAF)

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William Thomas and Elizabeth Farrow, of Kingsford, Sydney, New South Wales

Bristol Blenheim IV N6157 RT- 114 Squadron (Hong Kong)

Crashed Auxerre after being partially abandoned

BELOVED SON OF WILLIAM & ELIZABETH FARROW, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA "LIVING YET IN OUR HEARTS"

SYDNEY AIRMAN
KILLED
Was Serving With
R.A.F. In France
Advice has been received bv Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Farrow of Turnstall avenue, Kingsford, that their eldest son has been killed while on active service with the R.A.F. in France. The Air Ministry in Melbourne has communicated a cable from London that Pilot-Officer Robert William Farrow, 26, was killed in an aircraft accident on Sunday, March 3. Pilot-Officer Farrow left for a short-service commission with the R.A.F. in August. 1938. Previously he was a member of the N.S.W. Scottish Reeiment (the Black Watch).
Born in Sydney, Pilot-Officer Farrow was educated at Canberra Church of England Grammar School. He was a keen all-round sportsman, and an exceptionally fine athlete and footballer. He represented his school, and later the Randwick-Kensington Amateur Athletic Club. In 1935 he won the T. P. Carr Cup. He also played reserve grade football with the Randwick Rugby Union Club.

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