LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Neville Bruce ANDREWS
Service No: 44068
Born: Toowoomba QLD, 4 August 1912
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 December 1941
Unit: No. 76 Squadron
Died: Ground Accident, Sydney NSW, 25 May 1943, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Sydney War Cemetery, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John and Anne Andrews; husband of Dorothy Grace Andrews, of Kangaroo Point, Queensland
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 104, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 25 May 1943, Corporal Andrews, a Guard, was proceeding on posting to No. 3 Stores Depot, Brisbane, and had been instructed to proceed by tender to Central Railway Station, Sydney. The tender skidded on a slippery road wet from rain and crashed into a telegraph pole killing Corporal Andrews.
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, 166/3/54