LEST WE FORGET

Pilot Officer Claude Joseph HENRY

Service No: 413767
Born: Yenda NSW, 24 September 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 13 September 1941
Unit: General Reconnaissance School, Bairnsdale VIC
Died: Illness, Sale VIC, 6 May 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Sale War Cemetery VIC
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George Joseph and Irene Hilda Henry, of Yenda, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Yenda NSW
Remembered: Panel 116, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Griffith Cenotaph, Griffith NSW

On 29 April 1944, Pilot Officer Henry, a Pilot, was admitted to No. 4 RAAF Hospital, Sale, seriously ill with pericarditis. On 1 May he was assessed as dangerously ill and he died on 6 May 1944.

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, 166/17/557
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line

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