LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Arthur Bruce HOBSON
Service No: 165353
Born: Strathfield NSW, 3 August 1926
Enlisted in the RAAF: 15 August 1944
Unit: Care and Maintenance Unit, Deniliquin NSW
Died: Electrocuted, Deniliquin NSW, 15 July 1946, Aged 19 Years
Buried: Deniliquin War Cemetery, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Allan Elgar Hobson and Laura Alvene Hobson, of South Strathfield
Roll of Honour: Strathfield NSW
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: St Thomas’ Anglican Church WW2 Honour Roll, Enfield NSW
On 15 July 1946, Leading Aircraftman Hobson, a Flight Rigger, died from an electric shock. He was using an electrically driven compressor to check on tyres on stored aircraft and inflate as required, and he received an electric shock when he was handling cable on which the insulation had been damaged, and a bare active wire exposed.
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, 166/18/938
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line