LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Donald Harry HUNTER
Service No: 497
Born: 7 November 1916, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 3 Service Flying Training School, RAAF Station Amberley QLD
Died: Aircraft Accident (USAAC P40 E Kittyhawk aircraft 183), Nerang QLD, 4 February 1942, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Coonabarabran Cemetery, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Donald Augustus and Elsie May Hunter; husband of Dulcie Jean Hunter, of Purlewaugh
Roll of Honour: Coonabarabran NSW
Remembered: Panel 116, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 4 February 1942, Kittyhawk 183 flown by Flight Lieutenant Hunter crashed near Nerang, 60 miles from Amberley, in heavily timbered country while engaged in running in the engine, and he was killed.
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, 163/36/146