LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Arthur Leonard FOX
Service No: 15727
Born: Strathfield NSW, 3 September 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 June 1940
Unit: No. 1413 Meteorological Flight (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 1413 Meteorological Flight Hurricane aircraft BN364), Palestine, 11 May 1945, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Ramleh War Cemetery, Palestine
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Cecil Edwin Maddison Fox and Lizzie Louise Fox, of Manly, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Manly NSW
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Manly ANZAC War Memorial, Manly NSW
At 0300 hours on 11 May 1945, Hurricane BN364, while conducting a night meteorological flight, crashed approximately 2 miles north-west of Oastina, Palestine and Flying Officer Fox was killed.
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, 166/14/214
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line
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