LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Jack Hyland HARVEY
Service No: 25761
Born: Sandgate QLD, 1 January 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 May 1941
Unit: No. 3 Aircraft Depot, RAAF Station Amberley QLD
Died: Injuries from a Ground Accident, near Ipswich QLD, 26 August 1943, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Ipswich General Cemetery QLD
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Stephen and Florence Harvey; husband of Una Pearl Harvey, of Clayfield
Roll of Honour: Townsville QLD
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 26 August 1943, Leading Aircraftman Harvey, a Carpenter General, died of his injuries when a US Service tender collided with a civilian passenger bus three miles from Ipswich, Queensland. Aircraftman Class I Squelch was killed in the accident. The occupants of the bus were mainly RAAF personnel who were injured in the accident. Those involved were:
Corporal James William Anderson (25441) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 22 March 1948
Aircraftwoman Avis Mary Florence Atkins (101482) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 12 February 1946
Aircraftwoman Edith Brimblecombe (Hartwell) (100293) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 14 September 1945
Aircraftwoman Dorothy Joan Burns (100258) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 25 January 1946
Aircraftwoman Lorna Phyllis Cannard (Shute) (94101) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 2 April 1944
Leading Aircraftman Philip William Chandler (75613) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 28 April 1945
Aircraftman Class I Robert Henry Chandler (123632) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 11 December 1945
Sergeant Colin Prescott Dyason (6330) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 22 November 1945
Aircraftman Class I John Douglas Gordon (79772) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 6 February 1946
Leading Aircraftman Jack Hyland Harvey (25761) Fatally injured
Aircraftman Class I Horace Lees (78137) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 13 December 1945
Aircraftwoman Marie Isobel Hannah Little (Dyason) (100068) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 5 January 1944
Leading Aircraftman Gustav Lloyd Luebcke (28809) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 23 November 1945
Leading Aircraftman Douglas Wallace McBride (78515) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 30 November 1945
Leading Aircraftman Orlando James Oberfuschshuber (34871) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 12 December 1945
Aircraftman Class I Ronald Bruce Squelch (25242) Killed
Warrant Officer Leslie George Taylor (3037) (A31014) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 24 October 1954
Aircraftwoman Betty Erica Thompson (101132) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 20 November 1945
Aircraftwoman Eileen Maud Warbrook (100261) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 25 January 1946
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, 166/17/274