LEST WE FORGET

Leading Aircraftman Albert Ernest William FOX

Service No: 127246
Born: South Melbourne VIC, 8 April 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 23 February 1943
Unit: No. 24 Air Stores Park
Died: Ground Accident, Noemfoor Island, 24 October 1944, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Lae War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Ernest Jesse and Edith Lillian Fox; husband of Thelma Fox, of North Fitzroy, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Melbourne VIC
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT

On 24 October 1944, Leading Aircraftman Fox, a Guard, died as a result of an explosion of gelignite on Noemfoor Island, Dutch 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, 166/14/286

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