LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Phillip Eena DEVINE
Service No: 405788
Born: Toowoomba QLD, 28 January 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 June 1941
Unit: No. 1492 Target Towing Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident: (No. 1492 Target Towing Unit Martinet aircraft HN908), Greenham Common Airfield, 24 June 1943, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, Oxfordshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Clarence Roy and Ellen Mary Devine, of Gradule, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Goondiwindi QLD
Remembered: Panel 121, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 24 June 1943, Pilot Officer Devine, a Pilot, and Leading Aircraftman Douglas James Trump (1199735) (RAFVR) were killed when Martinet HN908 crashed at Greenham Common Airfield, Berkshire.
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 A9300, DEVINE P E
Bibliography:
Ilbery, P.L.T. (Peter Leslie Thomas) (422957) Hatching an Air Force: 2SFTS, 5SFTS, 1BFTS Uranquinty and Wagga Wagga, Banner Books Maryborough QLD 4650, 2002