LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Cecil Rhodes KIRBY
Service No: 25114
Born: Jundah QLD, 9 March 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 June 1940
Unit: No. 303 Radar Station, Forduma, Tufi PNG
Died: Gunshot Wounds, Tufi, 15 March 1943, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Ernest Victor and Ina May Isabel Kirby, of Ascot, Queensland
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 15 March 1943, Corporal Kirby, a Clerk General, died of gunshot wounds at Tufi, Papua New Guinea.
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, 166/22/40; A705, 163/133/232