LEST WE FORGET

Flight Sergeant Gladstone Montague HUNT

Service No: 433683
Born: Gordon NSW, 12 July 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 4 May 1943
Discharged from the RAAF: 3 August 1945
Unit at Discharge: No. 1 General Reconnaissance School (RCAF) / No. 7 Release Centre (RAAF)
Died: Illness, NSW, 5 August 1946, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Cremated
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Aubrey Fitzmaurice Hunt and Aileen Hunt, of Woollahra
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 133, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT

On 5 August 1946 Flight Sergeant Hunt, a Navigator Bomb Aimer, died of an illness. He was cremated in the Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney. He was admitted to No 3 RAAF Hospital from 24 May 1945 to 13 June 1945 and was discharged from the RAAF being permanently medically unfit for further service on 3 August 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 A9301, 433683

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