LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Robert Vincent JOHNSON
Service No: 8530
Born: Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, 20 October 1905
Enlisted in the RAAF: 31 January 1940 (at RAAF Station Laverton VIC)
Unit: No. 2 Aircraft Park
Died: Illness, Concord NSW, 11 January 1944, Aged 38 Years
Buried: Sydney War Cemetery, Rookwood NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert Vincent and Grace Johnson; husband of Hazel Heath Johnson, of Maroubra
Roll of Honour: Ashfield NSW
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 11 January 1944, Flight Sergeant Johnson, a Medical Orderly, died of Lobar Pneumonia with associated Toxic Myocarditis in No. 3 RAAF Hospital, Concord.
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, 166/21/109