LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Leonard Hardie WHITE
Service No: 413809
Born: Randwick NSW, 30 August 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 13 September 1941
Unit: No. 4 Operational Training Unit, RAAF Williamtown, NSW
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 4 Operational Training Unit Vengeance aircraft A27-94), near Bungendore NSW, 26 November 1943, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Canberra (Woden) Public Cemetery, ACT
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William Douglas and Clara White, of Waverley, New South Wales.
Roll of Honour: Waverley NSW
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Pilot Officer White survived a mid-air collision in Wirraway A20-215 on 8 August 1943 in which Leading Aircraftman Raymond Thomas Cooper (428633) was killed.
While on a cross country navigation exercise, at 1800 hours on 26 November 1943 Vultee Vengeance A27-94 crashed at Mulloon, near Bungendore killing both crew members.
The crew members of A27-94 were:
Flight Sergeant Robert Maxwell Carter (415116) (Observer)
Pilot Officer Leonard Hardie White (413809) (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, 220