LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Harold Alexander GARDEN
Service No: 78012
Born: Kilcoy QLD, 25 April 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 17 August 1942
Unit: No. 8 Service Flying Training School, Bundaberg QLD
Died: Ground Accident, Bundaberg, 25 April 1944, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Bundaberg General Cemetery QLD
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William and Jane Garden; husband of Florence Charlotte Garden, of Kilcoy
Roll of Honour: Kilcoy QLD
Remembered: Panel 115, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 25 Apri11944, Leading Aircraftman Garden, a Flight Mechanic, walked into the airscrew shortly after starting an aircraft engine and 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, 166/15/227