LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant George Hector HOWARD
Service No: 271512
Born: 11 July 1903, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 1 Service Flying Training School, RAAF Station Point Cook VIC
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 1 Service Flying Training School Oxford aircraft A7139), near Point Cook, 10 August 1943, Aged 40 Years
Buried: Springvale War Cemetery, Melbourne VIC
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William George Broom Howard and Edith Howard, husband of May Howard, of Murrumbeena
Roll of Honour: Childers QLD
Remembered: Panel 116, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 10 August 1943, Oxford R6194 and Oxford A7139 collided in the air in full flight – three crew members were killed in the accident and one was fatally injured.
The crew members of A7139 were:
Flight Lieutenant George Hector Howard (271512) (Instructor Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Dallas William Lynch (432063) (Trainee Dual Pilot)
The crew members of R6194 were:
Flying Officer Alfred Jack Allen (408615) (Instructor Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Arthur Austin Hughes (20775) (Trainee Dual Pilot) Fatally injured, Died: 10 August 1943
Leading Aircraftman John Glen Legoe (432525) (Trainee Dual Pilot) Dangerously injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 15 January 1945
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, 166/18/147; A9845, 177