LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Thomas James HOGAN
Service No: 64555
Born: Paddington NSW, 5 January 1911
Enlisted in the RAAF: 11 May 1942
Unit: No. 10 Repair and Servicing Unit
Died: Drowned, Kiriwina Island PNG, 30 April 1944, Aged 33 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Myles Thomas Hogan and Sarah Hogan; husband of Ethel Mae Hogan, of Coogee, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 30 April 1944, Leading Aircraftman Hogan, an Electrician, drowned when he was attending a swimming parade at North Beach, Kiriwina Island, Papua New Guinea. He swam out from the beach towards a reef and got into difficulties with the currents and the undertow. Two members of the RAAF tried to rescue him but he disappeared before they could reach him.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/18/342