LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Robert Richard Falkinder SWORDS
Service No: 408537
Born: Dandenong VIC, 23 September 1912
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 April 1941
Unit: No. 17 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 17 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit Master aircraft DL800), Cambridgeshire, 21 January 1943, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Whittlesford (St Mary and Andrew) Churchyard, Cambridgeshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Frederic Walter and Joan Elizabeth Swords, of Dandenong, Victoria, Australia.
Roll of Honour: Dandenong VIC
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 21 January 1943, Sergeant Swords flying Master DL800 solo was killed when the aircraft crashed at Fulbourn near Cambridge.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/38/24
Bibliography:
Winter, V.A. (Vincent Adams) (408547) Noble Six Hundred: the story of the Empire Air Training Scheme with special reference to Australians who trained in Southern Rhodesia, V.A. Winter Brighton VIC 3186, 1982