LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Ronald Desmond Holmes McCARTHY
Service No: 12085
Born: Paddington NSW, 26 April 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 January 1940
Unit: No. 2 Aircraft Depot, RAAF Station Richmond NSW
Died: Ground Accident, Manly NSW, 7 December 1941, Aged 24 Years
Buried: French’s Forest General Cemetery, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James and Annie McCarthy; husband of Stella Mabel McCarthy, of Balgowlah
Roll of Honour: Dee Why NSW
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 7 December 1941, Leading Aircraftman McCarthy died when a motor cycle he travelling on as the pillion passenger crashed at Manly, New South Wales.
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, 166/26/118