LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman David Isaac BLOK
Service No: 68497
Born: Adelong NSW, 16 July 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 5 August 1942
Unit: No. 338 Radar Station, Long Island PNG
Died: Illness, Dreger Harbour PNG, 3 January 1944, Aged 19 Years
Buried: Lae War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of the Revd. Morice Jacob Blok and Ivy Levenia Blok, of Braxton, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Dural NSW
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Branxton RSL Memorial Hall and Honour Rolls, Branxton NSW
On 3 January 1944, Leading Aircraftman Blok, died of typhus fever complicated by bilateral pneumonia at the 54th American Evacuation Hospital at Dreger Harbour, New Guinea.
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, 166/5/410
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line