LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant John Arthur HARIVEL
Service No: 411449
Born: Sydney NSW, 28 January 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 28 April 1941
Unit: No. 1 Service Flying Training School, RAAF Station Point Cook VIC
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 1 Service Flying Training School Oxford aircraft AS357), off Point Cook, 11 April 1942, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Richard Louis and Jane Arm Harivel; husband of Jean Constance Harivel, of Armadale, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 6, Sydney Memorial, Rookwood NSW
Remembered: Panel 116, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Boys High School Memorial Entrance World War II, Waratah NSW
At 0210 hours on 11 April 1942, Oxford AS357 crashed in the sea one mile south east of the Point Cook Pier and Sergeant Harivel was missing believed killed.
The crew members of AS357 were:
Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Lloyd Edwards (416419) (Dual Trainee Pilot) Slightly injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 7 September 1945
Sergeant John Arthur Harivel (411449) (Instructor Pilot)
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, 163/120/420
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