LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Hugh Godfrey PHILLIPS
Service No: 406625
Born: Subiaco WA, 18 May 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 3 February 1941
Unit: No. 6 Service Flying Training School, Mallala SA
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 6 Service Flying Training School Anson aircraft W2165), Monteith SA, 4 August 1942, Aged 20 Years
Buried: South Australian Cremation Memorial, Adelaide SA
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Horace and Nellie Dorothy Phillips, of Jolimont, Western Australia. (Cremated, South Australian Government Crematorium.).
Roll of Honour: Perth WA
Remembered: Panel 116, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Cenotaph Undercroft, State War Memorial, Kings Park WA
At 0950 hours on 4 August 1943, No. 6 Service Flying Training School Avro Anson aircraft R3542 and W2165 collided over Monteith, killing all eight crew members on board both aircraft. The crew members were:
W2165
Sergeant Mervyn John Nichols (413018) (Observer)
Sergeant Hugh Godfrey Phillips (406625) (Instructor Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman James Brignall Richardson (420056) (Trainee Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Colin McCall Say (409484) (Trainee Pilot)
R3542
Leading Aircraftman Leslie Cadd (416929) (Trainee Pilot)
Sergeant Gordon Cooper (413187) (Observer)
Leading Aircraftman Norman Dudley Haines (416956) (Trainee Pilot)
Flying Officer Laurence Vivian Wotzko (2366) (Instructor Pilot)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9845, 100
Bibliography:
Gaston, Bruce DFC (406646), Harry Horner DFC OAM (406595), Raymond Storer (406666) (Editors), Aircrew for the Duration: of and by members of RAAF EATS Courses 10, 11, 12 & 13, Gaston Horner and Storer, Nedlands WA, 1990
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Anson, Hudson and Sunderland in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1992