LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Ian Roderick SUTHERLAND
Service No: 37717
Born: Maclean NSW, 1 June 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 8 July 1941
Unit: No. 15 Aircraft Repair Depot, Port Moresby PNG
Died: Poisoning, Port Moresby PNG, 2 January 1944, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Rooney and Alice Ann Sutherland; husband of Rita Mary Sutherland, of Cootamundra, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Maclean NSW
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Maclean Cenotaph, Maclean NSW
On 1 January 1944, four members of No. 15 Aircraft Repair Depot became ill after consuming a toxic fluid believed to contain de-icing fluid. The members who were:
Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Martin Garrahy (71115) (Equipment Assistant) Died: 2 January 1944
Leading Aircraftman Ian Roderick Sutherland (37717) (Flight Rigger) Died: 2 January 1944
Leading Aircraftman Leslie Alfred Woodbridge (56981) (Clerk Stores Assistant) Died: 1 January 1944
Leading Aircraftman James Walter Woods (41254) (Flight Mechanic) Died: 1 January 1944
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, 166/38/379
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line