LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Douglas Edwin FORD
Service No: 5819
Born: 13 February 1917, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAAF: 9 January 1940
Discharged from the RAAF: 26 February 1942
Unit at Discharge: No. 3 Squadron (discharged through No. 2 Embarkation Depot, Bradfield Park NSW)
Died: Illness (Tuberculosis), 7 February 1944, Aged 26 Years
Cremated: Sydney (Northern Suburbs) Crematorium NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Ernest Edwin and Alice Harriet Blea Ford; husband of Thelma Ford, of Randwick
Roll of Honour: Mosman NSW
Remembered: New South Wales Cremation Memorial, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Remembered: Panel 98, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/113/109