LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Alexander Garden HALLIDAY
Service No: 437618
Born: Sydney NSW, 11 July 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 30 March 1943 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 22 Squadron, Noemfoor Island
Died: Aircraft Accident (No.22 Squadron Beaufighter aircraft A8-38), Noemfoor, 20 January 1945, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Lae War Cemetery, PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Alexander Garden Halliday and Anne Murdoch Halliday; husband of Edna Grace Halliday, of Lane Cove, New South Wales. B.Ec. (Sydney).
Roll of Honour: Roseville NSW
Remembered: Panel 101, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
During a test flight on 20 January 1945, Beaufighter A8-38 crashed 3 kms south west of the Kamiri airstrip at 1535 hours and both crew members were killed. The cause of the accident was engine failure and fire. The crew members were:
Flying Officer Alexander Garden Halliday (437618) (Navigator)
Flight Lieutenant John Thomas Robert (400835) (Pilot)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9845, 52
Bibliography:
Parnell, N.M. (Neville M.) Whispering Death: A history of the RAAF’s Beaufighter Squadrons, AH & AW Reed Terry Hills NSW, 1980
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1992