LEST WE FORGET
Warrant Officer Gilbert Allan Noel SMITH
Service No: 4119
Born: Sydney NSW, 25 December 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 March 1939 (at RAAF Station Laverton VIC)
Unit: Milne Bay Wireless Telegraph Station PNG
Died: Ground Accident, Milne Bay, 28 July 1944, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Sidney Thomas Smith and Catherine Smith; husband of Clare Josephine Smith, of Arncliffe, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Arncliffe NSW
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 20 December 1939, Warrant Officer Smith was uninjured in the crash of No. 1 Squadron Anson aircraft A4-17 at Pat’s River aerodrome, Tasmania, in which there were no other injuries.
On 28 July 1944, Warrant Officer Smith, a Wireless Maintenance Mechanic, was electrocuted at Milne Bay.
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, 4119
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line A9301, 4119; A9845, 74