LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Alaric Rupert Samuel WHITE
Service No: 400522
Born: North Fitzroy VIC, 7 October 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 15 September 1940
Unit: No. 1 Service Flying Training School, RAAF Station Point Cook VIC
Died: Ground Accident, Point Cook, 8 November 1942, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Diamond Creek (Nillumbik) Cemetery VIC
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Samuel and Winifred Violet White, of Greensborough
Roll of Honour: Diamond Creek VIC
Remembered: Panel 117, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On a solo night training flight on 8 November 1942, Oxford X7111 flown by Trainee Pilot Leading Aircraftman Frank Stevenson (421094) (Killed in an Aircraft accident: 29 May 1944) ground looped while taking off at 2145 hours from the Werribee Satellite aerodrome and the aircraft struck and killed Flying Officer White. X7111 had received a signal to taxi out and take off from the Aerodrome Control Officer who was standing with Flying Officer White and other instructors.
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, 163/177/221
Bibliography:
Ilbery, P.L.T. (Peter Leslie Thomas) (422957) Hatching an Air Force: 2SFTS, 5SFTS, 1BFTS Uranquinty and Wagga Wagga, Banner Books Maryborough QLD 4650, 2002