19-06-2007, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| RAAF Burials in WW2
I have just finished categorising the 10,835 RAAF deaths for the period 1939 to 1945. The first RAAF death recorded in Europe was on 12/4/1940 for Sidney Ignatius Oliver (Flight Sergeant) who was attached to 10 squadron and is buried at Hooe (St John) courtyard in Devon. (No Photo - Anyone??????)
I have come across some interesting smaller cemeteries with a story to tell which I will post soon.
__________________ Spidge, 
------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
Last edited by spidge; 24-06-2007 at 01:12 PM.
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