LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Edgar Roy HENKEL
Service No: 32321
Born: Lismore NSW, 25 April 1903
Enlisted in the RAAF: 15 July 1940
Unit: No. 22 Squadron
Died: Injuries, Port Moresby PNG, 8 January 1944, Aged 40 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Christian and Charlotte Henkel; husband of Dorothy Ethel Henkel, of Richmond, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Richmond NSW
Remembered: Panel 101, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Richmond and District Memorial, Richmond NSW
On 6 January, 1944, Sergeant Henkel, a Fitter Driver Motor Transport, died of second degree bums about the abdomen, right leg, arm and right hand. He was admitted to Hospital and died on the 8 January 1944. He was required to service daily the lighting plant, pumping plant and refrigeration in the camp area. He lit a cigarette, threw the match down and it fell into a can of petrol which ignited.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/17/432
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line