LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Sydney Charles GILMOUR
Service No: 73336
Born: Sydney NSW, 4 March 1909
Enlisted in the RAAF: 27 November 1942
Unit: No. 13 Aircraft Repair Depot
Died: Illness, Charters Towers QLD, 26 November 1943, Aged 34 Years
Buried: Charters Towers War Cemetery QLD
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Sidney Styles Gilmour and Elizabeth Agnes Gilmour; husband of Thelma Elizabeth Gilmour, of Pyrmont, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Pyrmont NSW
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 22 November 1943, Leading Aircraftman Gilmour, a Guard, was admitted to No. 116 Australian General Hospital for an operation for appendicitis that day. Following complications from the operation, he died on 26 November 1943.
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, 166/15/143