LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Martin John Frusher FOLEY
Service No: 430205
Born: Bairnsdale VIC, 15 October 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 1 January 1943
Unit: No. 7 Service Flying Training School, Deniliquin NSW
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 7 Service Flying Training School Wirraway aircraft A20-307), near Deniliquin, 1 November 1943, Aged 19 Years
Buried: Deniliquin War Cemetery, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Henry John and Ada Maud Foley, of East Gippsland, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 115, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1050 hours on 1 November 1943, Wirraway A20-307departed solo on an Radio / Telephone exercise and collided with Wirraway A20-363 and crashed 2.5 miles south east of the main runway at Deniliquin. Leading Aircraftman Foley was killed in the collision.
The Pilots were:
Leading Aircraftman Martin John Frusher Foley (430205) (Trainee Pilot) (Wirraway A20-307)
Leading Aircraftman Ewen Douglas Milliken (430216) (Trainee Pilot) (Wirraway A20-363) Slightly Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 8 February 1946
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, 166/14/114; A9845, 174