LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Rex Angus Arthur PEDLER
Service No: 20338
Born: Adelaide SA, 12 January 1913
Enlisted in the RAAF: 28 November 1940 (at Sydney NSW)
Discharged from the RAAF: 15 September 1942
Unit at Discharge: No. 5 Service Flying Training School, Uranquinty NSW
Died: Illness (Tuberculosis), New South Wales, 24 January 1943, Aged 30 Years
Cremated: Rookwood Crematorium, Sydney NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Cecil Wilton Pedler and Gertrude Victoria Pedler; husband of Hilda Doreen Pedler, of Double Bay
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 5, NSW Cremation Memorial
Remembered: Panel 116, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 15 September 1942, Leading Aircraftman Pedler, a Wireless Telephone Operator, was discharged from the RAAF being medically unfit for further service suffering from tuberculosis and he died on 24 January 1943.
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, 20338