LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant George Ashmore Leeton EVATT
Service No: 412808
Born: Leeton NSW, 10 September 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 July 1941
Unit: No. 28 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident: (No. 28 Squadron Hurricane aircraft KZ647), India, 1 January 1945, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Imphal War Cemetery, India
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George Joseph and Stella Raymond Evatt, of Crows Nest, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Wollstonecraft NSW
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 1 January 1945 Hurricane KZ647 crashed at 1545 hours while taking off from Tamu airstrip near Manipur, India, detailed to drop messages to forward troops. Flight Lieutenant Evatt was killed in the crash.
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, 166/12/141